canaryinthemine
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Canary, you can shovel the ::::!!! I have never heard anyone excuse Carter of destroying organized labor the way you did. Carter who is our most intelligent president ever. An Annapolis graduate, pioneer in the nuclear powered Navy. Or according to you a spineless dolt !!!!! And what about Carters VETO PROOF CONGRESS, were they spineless dolts too? Let's get back to total compensation!!!!!! Fire off a Titan message to your man in the new York conference of Teamsters. Get the total cost of compensation for an ABF and FEDEX freight driver. I think you would be doing organized labor a great service by providing accurate information.
And what would a comparison of labor costs between ABF and FedEx achieve? FedEx is not negotiating with their employees.......they will ..react..after ABF ratifies it's contract.
FedEx employees pay a weekly "co-pay" to their employer to....."maintain"....their health care,....one of the biggest scams going, in my opinion. Their recent start-up of a defined-benefit pension will nowhere equal a Teamster pension,.....at least not for the next 30 years. In the meantime,.....all you got for retirement at FedEx,....and just about all other non-Union places,.....is a self-funded 401(k),.....and,....Wall Street recently decreased the annuity rate to 3.5%,..from 5%. For those who know how that works,......that means you need an extra couple hundred thousand in your 401(k) before you retire,...to make the same BEFORE they lowered the annuity rate,........Work another 5-6 years........Of course their Labor costs are lower.....
The corporate philosophy is to force employees to devalue their labor,........and the resulting savings go right into corporate profits and bonuses......at the expense of our families. Comparing us to FedEx,...or any other non-Union company,...is the "race to the bottom",.....a term that such a scholar of history as you seem to be should surely recognize.
If ABF's,..........and YRC's,.......and UPSF's .......wages and benefits rise substantially higher than the non-Unions,.....then you would have the non-Unions raising their pay and benefits in response. Been in trucking long? It's always happened that way.........In a tight labor market,........the employers realize they MUST pay higher wages to maintain a competent work force.
Working in a Union job,....is an intelligence test, Brother. Do you want the highest wages and benefits for your family? Do you want job protection, and collective bargaining rights? If you do,.....then you go to a Union carrier,........If you don't understand,....or if you're not qualified,.......you follow the line of least resistance,....and get hired at a non-Union carrier.
By the way,.....I didn't call Mr. Carter a..."spineless dolt".........Those are your words,.....and what seems to be a popular debating trick, nowadays. I don't use tricks like that....
I don't have "a man" in New York Conference of Teamsters,...........unless you're using the term in a collective sense,......which, in that case,....both you and I have "a man" in New York,.......as long as you're a Teamster, too..........