UPS Freight is already doing that with their in-house 3pl Coyote Logistics. There are two big subcontracting grievances that have already been deadlocked at the regional level and are going to the national panel......
ABF can keep up the masquerade that they are a "Union" carrier,....... if they have three ABF employees and twenty subcontractors on every city dock......"As long as ALL ABF employees have been offered work...."
If, through attrition and retirements, they can bleed down each City operation to just a fourth of what it is now......... they can subcontract all they want,....... and cry about their "inability" to hire qualified drivers..