Yellow | YRC Logistics trucks

[Vwaggs]

See casino link above. You're own slice of Vegas.
Not advising you on how to direct your life but Landstar I've heard is very popular among O/O's.

 

[marksmentrans]

See casino link above. You're own slice of Vegas.
Not advising you on how to direct your life but Landstar I've heard is very popular among O/O's.

Thanks for the FYI, but in an effort to keep his work and my work as seperate as possible He will not haul for carriers we do business with. Limits his options, but as I am the main bread winner we can not jeopordize my income.

 

[dlscontractor]

YRC Logistics in Oklahoma

I was passed by a YRC Logistics 53 footer pulled by an unfamiliar company in Tulsa this April. The van looked like a USF trailer with the logo removed and YRC Logistics in it's place. An 800 number on the rear for employment. It really caught me off guard. I was not paying much attention to the tractor as it went by, but the USF look and the YRC Logistics caught me off guard since it was not hooked to a yellow or roadway rig.

 

[imported_Kurt]

in today’s world you can not talk about national without dealing with global economy.

But why is that so? And does it have to be so? Our country's politicians (who are in the pockets of corps.) are taking our economy "global" for one reason -- to lower labor costs. There is nothing inevitable about going "global." It is not something that is just happening because that is just the way it is, or becuase that is, oh darn, the way the ecnomic winds just happening to be blowing right now and that therefore the people whose lives are being ruined by it should just suck it up and be happy, obedient, "patriotic," paupers. Globilization is not an inevitable economic path of history. It is something that has been very much planned and executed by corporations/gvnmt against We The People.

I know this thread was not about the economy; it was about YRC Logisitics. But YRC's situation seemed to fit into a bigger picture. I suppose my earlier post took the thread off subject somewhat. I apologize.

I was addressing a conspiracy theory stated in this thread and trying to educate you on the falsehoods that were being spread.

I for one enjoy your inside insight.

I think we went off the rails somewhat on the terminology. I don't consider union busting a "conspiracy theory." It is a fact. There is a $3 billion dollar/year consulting industry that does nothing but consult with companies on how to weaken/bust/keep out employee unions. I have no doubt whatsoever that YRC is using those consulting services or has an inhouse version of their own. I originally tried to convince myself that the new contract language creating the new utility driver classification was an honest attempt to compete in freight that the YRC unionized affliates were uncompetitive in. But since I have seen the new change of operations it is clear to me that they are attempting to weaken the union by spreading their union employees around into smaller terminals. With Junior Hoffa's help YRC is turning the Teamsters into a "company union." Once these drivers get isolated in small one-or-two driver domiciles and develope "mom and pop" relationships with the local management they will stop standing up for their union rights and even worse -- start accepting give back contracts.

To continue my conspiracy theory: if these new changes don't have the desired effect of turning the Teamsters into YRC's personal company union, YRC will let the unionized part of the company wither on the vine. I think Junior Hoffa is an abysmal leader, but looking at what has happened to the UAW, I think Hoffa's strategy of operational give backs and non National Master Frieght Agreement contracts at UPS Freight are probably the best path, until we get some change in the White House and in the National Labor Relations Board and get Congress to over turn the anti-american-worker and pro-multinational-corporation Taft-Hartley Act.

[people] reading into things (things that just aren't there) and have become so sensitive they are not willing to enter into a friendly adult conversation aimed at learning and teaching instead of belittling and demeaning.

Good point. But when a person sees that their ability to earn a decent living is under attact they get pretty dahgum sensitive pretty dahgum quickly. When the corporations try to cut a man's (or woman's) wages in half and lower their working conditions -- are we justified in being "sensitive" about it? There were some Americans a few years ago that got "sensitive" about a multi-national corp that was flooding the "global" American economy with cheap oriental tea -- it wond up in the Boston Harbor. "Sensitive" people indeed.

I was simply trying to point out that Meridian IQ and YRC Logistics are one and the same.

Agian, I enjoy the inside insight. But I don't think that there is a RDWY driver around that is confused about the origines of Meridian IQ - at least none that pay attention. RDWY started Meridean IQ long before YRC was even a glimmer in the CEO's eyes.

I don't know anything about your unions as my husband is independent.

It is not our unions. Not plural. We are ONE union - The Teamsters. We who work for a living (and are unionized) present ourselves as one to the corporate world. Just like the corporations, who are "unionized" investors, creat a "one" which they use to make themselves more powerful than they could ever be as individuals. If investors can form themselves into legal unions, which they call corporations, to leverage their power why can't me and you?

If the corporate world has their way you and your husband, and millions like you, will never know anything about unions. The only information about unions that you or anyone else will ever get from the corporate world is lies and disinformation intended to make you (and and all of us) poorer -- and them and their own richer.

 

[imported_Kurt]

Amino, You have explained a portion of our business with accuracy, however, there are other sides.

No, there are not other sides. There is only one side for YRC employess, and that is YRC's side. Every employee and corporate investor in YRC wants to see YRC rule the trucking industry.

But I could not tell you who is union and who is not, who charges more and who is cheaper.

Whether a company in unionized or not has nothing to do with how much their product or service costs. The only difference a union makes is how the wealth that is created is divided up. It is the same amount of wealth created. But will all of it go to the corporate investors and none to the employess? Or will the employees get part of the wealth created and then go out and buy things and stimulate the economy? Which will in turn create more oppurtunities for investors.

What I would like to point out, and you made this point for me, the client is looking for the cheapest move. It is all client driven.

Precisely. It is the client that ultimately sets the price. The company cannot arbitrarily raise their rates to pay their employees' union wages. The rates stay the same - the profits stay the same - who gets to take how much of the profits home to their wife and kids is what matters.

We have not set our goals for 2008 as "put the union driver out of business".

Weakening the Teamster's grip on RDWY and Yellow has been a goal of upper management (now called YRC) everysince day one. Your immediate goal at Logistics is to satisfy the customer, but the big picture from the sky scraper in KC headquarters is to go non union and as quickly as legally possible.

We just go in the direction the client pushes us. Not saying it si right or wrong, just a fact of ALL business industries.

Yes, and since deregulation the clients have been pushing the trucking companies to compete on who can pay their drivers the least. Similiarly in the past, multi-national corporate textile companies in England were pushing their clients in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia to use slave labor. Did that make it right? It was just a fact of ALL business, right? Not right or wrong, just sayin'.

I'm not buyin' it. There is a right and a wrong.

 

[Docksteward]

Welcome to the boards, Kurt......glad to have you here. DS.

 

[Animo916]

Just an aside from what everyone else has posted. I learned last Sunday at my meeting that the International is filing a major grievence in regards to YRC Logistics. It seems that many drivers in my area, from Roadway and Yellow alike, have been seeing many large accounts shifted onto YRC Logistics trucks. These accounts are multi skid, multi bill pickups that we used to make on a daily basis. Now we are getting none of it. If we are seeing it here, and the International is taking it to a fight, then it must be happening everywhere. So much for anyone from Logistics saying that Roadway/Yellow/unionized freight is not being targeted. If Logistics is the nonunion entity at YRC, then why don't they go after Conway, Old Dominion, Estes, or Fedex customers and leave our frieght alone. This in my eyes seems to be an even more profitable endeavor, than taking freight and business from corporate's unionized sector. It seems that corporate would rather shift the wealth than try to create more wealth. No wonder our stock doesn't go over $20 a share for long.

 

[imported_Kurt]

why don't they go after Conway, Old Dominion, Estes, or Fedex customers and leave our frieght alone. . . It seems that corporate would rather shift the wealth than try to create more wealth.

Exactly. They would rather shift the wealth than share the wealth. And yet it is the Union leadership that gets accused of, "We'd rather run the company out of business than cooperate with management." When in fact it is the corporate leaders who would rather see the company go out of business than work with a strong employee's union. They will gladly run the company out of business if it means busting the union once and for all -- at which point they can lower the employee's earnings and increase the employer's (themselves) earnings.

Bill Zollars (the CEO of YRC) made $3.09 million last year at YRC.
The year before that he made $5.19 million at YRC.
In 2007 his pension plan (a plan that includes one person) rose by $1.48 million.

And yet it is the working, union people (the people who actually create the wealth) who get blamed for being greedy and running the company into the ground.

The Republicans and the Libertarians may be successfully busting unions (in the name of freedom), lowering our wages, destroying our healthcare and pensions, and making our personal lives hell. But they'll keep us well informed and in a tizzy about God, Guns, and Gays. But I digress.