Snark Monkey
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With the driver shortage and no ones applying, why are we griping about shiny wheels?
Man, you sound like the pivot man in a management circle j***
With the driver shortage and no ones applying, why are we griping about shiny wheels?
Teamster paramedic saves his sorry life anyway because that his job and he does it the best he can....and as they lay gasping on the floor, clutching their throat,....a Teamster paramedic who knows this story kneels beside them.................
And the Teamster driving the ambulance takes the dying patient to the farthest hospital away because the others are all too full or otherwise incapable of providing proper care for him.Teamster paramedic saves his sorry life anyway because that his job and he does it the best he can.
I am hearing that between Denver and SLC the Mack dealers have 31 ABF trucks with emissions issues and will not run.Shiney wheels are pulling our pups out of Denver as well.
That would bite big time. If it's 31 it could be all of them.I am hearing that between Denver and SLC the Mack dealers have 31 ABF trucks with emissions issues and will not run.
The problem, as I see it, is that ABFwill only get paid the pickup and delivery fee for the TKshipments. Panther will receive the lions share of the TK profit.Only, as GO40 pointed out, Panther is not set up to pickup these LTL(Less Truck Load) shipments. And at contract renewal time ABC willshow that ABF did not produce the revenue they expected. But thatPanther revenue grew exponentially. Only Panther did not and couldnot pickup the LTL TimeKeeper freight. It was ABF that supplied theemployees and equipment to make the TimeKeeper freight profitable!!!!We do the work and Panther gets the credit. Same old bate and switch.I agree, but if they want to grow the general ltl side of it they will need ABF because panther, freight value or whatever gypsies they plan on purchasing are not set up to do our side of it....The next contract will be critical to our survival....
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That's what I'm talking about and while he's at it he should investigate these EDR's they company has dreamed up. Where did they come from? I have looked all through my contract and can't see anything about them in it. All disciplinary procedures need to be negotiated with the union and anything additional should be addressed as an unfair labor practice.Good Point! Wouldn't that be a violation of the agreement they had legally signed? Wouldn't that be a part of the "negotiated compensation"? It would be the same as the company coming out and saying that as of a certain date, they are no longer paying overtime,....because trucking is not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,....and their competitors don't pay overtime,.....so it's "legal" not to pay overtime,....in spite of us having negotiated language providing for overtime after 8, 9 and 10 hour shifts. All of the revenue from ABF will go toward the Operating Ratio,...which will provide the basis for the "bonus",....including the formula for how much "bonus". So.......how can they exclude part of the revenue after it was negotiated,....and signed on? YooHooo,......Hey,..Tyson,.....Wake Up, Boy! Here's something you can earn your paycheck on......Go ask Ms. McReynolds how much more revenue will ABF break away from it's Operating Ratio before the contract expires. Don't forget to bring flowers.........
I like that approachI like Employee Discussion Reports. We do them on Company Time. I get to Argue passionately on Company Time. When I'm done arguing, I have to sit down and write a Rebuttal, while the Facts are still Fresh......on Company Time. I sometimes struggle with the proper Language to use in my Rebuttal,.....so it might take quite a bit of Company Time to properly phrase it. Sometimes I have to go out to the Union bulletin board, and re-read my Weingarten Rights,....on Company Time,....just to make sure they haven't been violated. You have to have another Union employee in a EDR with you, if you feel that any discussion may lead to discipline,......and as all of my discussions are passionate,....we sometimes have to wait,...on Company Time,....for another Union employee to become available,.....so I am insured my Weingarten Rights aren't violated. Since you can possibly use an hour or two,.....easily,....of Company Time,...on a EDR,.....the management at our terminal only has these discussions when something major, or critical occurs. They don't use them as a form of harrassment,.....because they could easily,.......very easily,.... turn into a three- hour time waster,...that eats into terminal profits. So,.......they don't seem to play little-kid disciplinary games, here. Or,.....at least, they don't no more,......after we've had a few marathon EDR's.......
They go into the record. They are not identified in the contract as a viable method of discipline but if the company is permitted to issue them, put them in your file and use them to discipline or consider disciplining a future misstep on your part and it goes unchecked by our union we will be stuck with it.I like that approach
So is an EDR not considered discipline in and of itself?
They do go into the employees record don't they?
They go into the record. They are not identified in the contract as a viable method of discipline but if the company is permitted to issue them, put them in your file and use them to discipline or consider disciplining a future misstep on your part and it goes unchecked by our union we will be stuck with it.