Thank you for the kind words concerning my retirement. I was on the picket-line in 1994, my only one (thank God). The last “real negotiated contract” was prior to 2008. The rest of them have been vote yes, or close the doors. That is when the bottom dropped out. You are correct that todays union employees face negative actions that I never did (I thank God for that). Yellow owned every union company except ABF. Especially after UPS was allowed to bail out of CSPF and that 6.1 Billion soon disappeared by means of mismanaged funds (embezzlement). Good luck to drivers everywhere, it is a challenge, that is for sure.I really hope the new guys you have running the International in D.C. have a better handle on the freight side than the Hoffa gang did.
I sincerely hope that too.
It would take an absolute fool to think everyone in operations side of trucking doesn’t benefit from a strong Teamsters union.
Unfortunately, that is also true for a weak Teamsters union. It affects us all. We watched wages stagnate while YRCW was cutting. Anyone who didn’t notice it is a liar.