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Northern Flash said:
The five billion that UPS paid the pension funds to get their employees out of the pensions, was pissed away within a couple of years. Bill Gates' 54 billion couldn't bail the pension funds out.....since they'd **** it away within a couple of years also.
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I would love to see a full investigation of the CSPF, and find out exactly where the 6 billion UPS paid went. It was pissed away to someone's pocket, Imo.
 
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yrc-atm said:
Or maybe they would have merged you into CF and the parasite could have died and the host lived.
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Yellow could have purchased CF and rescued that company - instead they purchased Roadway. Nobody's upset at Zollars for this? You complain about drivers at non-union companies not wanting to unionize. You do know we can read your threads on the union boards , right?
 
icuicp said:
Yellow could have purchased CF and rescued that company - instead the purchased Roadway. Nobody's upset at Zollars for this? You complain about drivers at non-union companies not wanting to unionize. You do know we can read your threads on the he union boards , right?
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I dont complain about non-union drivers not organizing. If you did read my posts you would know that I could care less if you organized or not. And yellow didn't rescue anything. CF didnt need rescuing, it had a parasite bleeding it out.
 
yrc-atm said:
I dont complain about non-union drivers not organizing. If you did read my posts you would know that I could care less if you organized or not. And yellow didn't rescue anything. CF didnt need rescuing, it had a parasite bleeding it out.
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"Teamsters President James Hoffa blamed deregulation for Consolidated Freightway's bankruptcy. But that's far from the whole story. Hoffa's allies in the conservative old guard ran the Teamsters union when CNF began moving assets into Con-Way--and let them get away with it"

Most issues or problems that the union is dealing with could have been nipped in the bud BY THE UNION. The membership cannot blame anyone else when things go wrong.

A union , any union , that has members that blame others for their problems , lets executive leadership not answer for shrinking enrollment , pension , respect , and influence , will have a hard time getting men and women that work hard everyday to buy into joining.

What will happen first? Will there be someone held accountable for the drain on CSPF and the wage cuts? Or , will XPO Logistics screw over Con-way Inc. ?
 
Seems to me, when Con-way was starting up, the Teamsters Union was approached for Con-way to be represented by the Teamsters Union. And the Teamsters Union said no.
 
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I read one of Jacobs quotes in an article today where he bottom lined what he and xpo are all about-- making xpo stock more valuable to its share holders. How is this going to be accomplished? Think it through
 
LTLIndentured said:
I read one of Jacobs quotes in an article today where he bottom lined what he and xpo are all about-- making xpo stock more valuable to its share holders. How is this going to be accomplished? Think it through
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With an eye to the future, what will make stock more valuable? Increasing employee compensation? Taking from the employee bucket and moving it to the company bucket increases stock value. This so-called driver shortage isn't moving my driver pay up much more than usual annual raises do. The union votes are failing because they have nothing attractive to offer at the moment. I predict that xpo will cut compensation and increase pressure on drivers to perform higher and other companies will do likewise. Eventually enough drivers will tire of it and when it gets bad enough the union will get voted in, but not in time to save cspf.

Yes, that's a lot of supposition, but if I'm right wouldn't it be better to get union now rather than have everyone in all freight companies suffer through years of decreasing wages and poor working conditions? My problem with it is a complete lack of trust in IBT leadership. Can't there be a better option? It's not a perfect world so I guess I'll have to take the bad with the good and get some protection from bonus greedy TMs. As always open to better options
 
mud said:
Seems to me, when Con-way was starting up, the Teamsters Union was approached for Con-way to be represented by the Teamsters Union. And the Teamsters Union said no.
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You know it was a long time ago but I remember talking to the union drivers and they were told to lay off the Conway Express drivers and still wonder why. Maybe they believed the great lie too...1988 "Conway Express is next day only. We'll never compete head to head with CF." (about picking up 2 day freight, we were told to take back to shipper)
 
Northern Flash said:
No Conway doesn't. But based on all of the pension letters that I've been getting from my Teamster Pension Fund (Central States Pension Fund)........neither does the Union companies.

My pension has been cut by 2/3. That's correct, I will get 1/3 of what I was promised. And the odds are that I won't even get that 1/3.

Conway employees need to throw this information back in the face of the organizers.
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Well, maybe if the CSPF hadn't made those 'loans' to The Mafia for those Las Vegas casino's back in the 60's...
 
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