You are absolutely correct but our international has the responsibility to furnish copies to every member. I have downloaded and copied the contract but every member should be handed a copy. The international need's to act like they give a s*** about the freight members! Yes it is time to stand together and stop this now!
The IBT Constitution provides instructions on how to impeach and remove International and Principal officers who are guilty of misappropriations of funds, malfeseance of office, gross abuse of office,.....etc,.....However, the IBT Executive board rules on those cases. Since about 1985, or so,...the Federal government has forced an Independent Review Board on the Teamsters,.....so that the rank-and-file can report instances of abuse to a Federal prosecutor,.........I believe that's Charles Carberry,.......you can read all about those peccadilloes in the back pages of the Teamsters magazine. To file any sort of substantial charges,....with either group,....you must have a well-documented case,.....absolute proof,.....that the Officers in question compromised their oath of office.....Right now, all you can accuse the IBT so-called "negotiating teams" of ,....is shocking incompetency,.....stupidity of the first sort,.....falling for lies promoted by false information provided from the employers,........in itself,....nothing impeachable,....no ,.....ummm...."laws",...or IBT rules broken,.....UNLESS, you have evidence the IBT officers DELIBERATELY colluded with the employers to lower their labor costs and gut our contracts. They can't be impeached,...or removed from office for rank incompetency,............bumbling , foolish ignorance of facts,......clownish failure to hold employers accountable for their numbers provided during negotiations,..........cowardly acquiesance to the employers' threats of closure.........All that stuff,....is what the IBT General election is about, when they have their convention in about two years,.........and for the Local officers who spouted the party lines, and told the rank-and-file that "These are Good Contracts,....Good MOU's,...We Recommend That You Vote For Them.",........Well, well, well,......Looky here,.....Local elections are starting for many Locals this September,......So,.....after a nice, long summer of cut-rate contracts, cut-rate pension payments, and cut-rate carriers pulling our freight and violating our conditions,.....the rank-and-file ought to be red-hot angry,....and they ought to take that red-hot anger right down to the front row on the very first Local Union meeting in September,.....and hold those Local Officers ACCOUNTABLE for their lack of courage and leadership through these last contract talks,.......and inform them,.....in no uncertain terms,.....that you won't be voting for them,.....ever,.....and that they can return to their rank-and-file jobs once they lose the election,.....and work under the conditions they helped ruin,.....and see how they like that. We were lied to about pensions,...healthcare,....MOU's,....about ABF potentially being bought by YRC,.....All lies,......Don't forget where you heard those lies promoted from.
One thing that was illegal according to the NLRA.Coercion is illegal. To threaten employees of company closure for a favorable vote in favor of what a company wants or union.That was down right distasteful and wrong.In the case against YRCW and the 2014 MOU.We voted twice for basically the same horrendous contract.Of which the first of the two was voted down unaminously.Then the executives after the second vote in favor of the company.Granted themselves a hefty bonus and one board member got his cool 5 million dollars and left to go back to his investment firm MAEVA.Of which the company received some money as well.Yeah YRCW was going broke..
They will get real sanctimonious, and tell you that you had a "choice" on how to vote. Of course, they'll never mention the sneaky tactics and subtle,......and not so subtle,.... coercion used to scare the timid and uneducated among us. So,.....therefore, no laws were broken,........It's not illegal to be stupid,...scared,...timid,...uneducated,....nor is it illegal to take advantage of the stupid and gullible,......as long as you gave them a "choice"....Therefore,....ABF's and YRC's ........"tactics",....over the last few contract and MOU sessions,......were,....ummm...."legal",..and no "laws" were broken,....unless you want to give a few lawyers the screaming chuckles, and talk about Morality and Honesty. Any lawyer worth his exorbitant retainer fee will tell you that Honesty is a relative term,....and Morality has no place in business,..........Just look at that slimy den of milquetoast cutthroat thieves on Wall Street, for an example of how Honesty and Morality play in the business world.......This is why Unions were developed, in the first place,.........to inject a little Morality in the dealings with business owners and their Labor force,.........And now we come to the question of exactly what was the IBT ...."leadership's "....thought process during these last few years,...........Ignorant of industry conditions?......Isolated from the real world on the docks and behind the wheel?........So complacently stupid that they took everything that the company negotiators claimed as true,....without verifying the facts?............(...none of which is against the.."law"..).....OR,.....Were they complicit in lowering our compensation in a time of a severe driver shortage, because they were co-operating with the ATA leadership in containing Labor costs?...........THAT would be against the Law,.......And the Moral Law........ Remember in September.......
The next contract we better stick together or were screwed/ we cant be screwed again.....
I believe they got what they wanted this time.
werner just rolled in,first one I seen came from 042 to 184
I saw the first one Monday morning(050).
Im sure a teamster had to finish the job....
10-4......
