The 15% paycut was voted on and yes a few of the terminals in the NW voted against them, YRC has repeatedly threatened to close them but so far, all talk on YRC's part. Reddaway is still on the road for now but honestly, I take it day by day. I do not see how YRC can pull it out, I have watched this scenario play out many times before in my 30 years in this industry and it has never turned out good, PIE, CF, NW etc.., every major union company is gone. In 1980 (the year I started) the top 50 LTL companies in the USA were union, today in reality we are down to 2, YRC and ABF and in "MY OPINION" the writing is on the wall.
YRC has sold all of Reddawy's terminals, my truck has 1.3 million miles on it and no new equipment is in sight in fact they are handing down Roadway tractors to us now so even IF they wanted to sell Reddaway...what is there to sell? you can not sell a customer base and they have sold all our real estate. Talk of merging us with YRC does not make me feel any better, NMFA does not let a paper contract "feather in seniority" with NMFA. We would be tail ended into any merger. So the outlook as far as I see it is bleak but I am working, what was once a great company has been reduced to one of the lowest paying LTL jobs out there thanks mostly to Bill Zollars, YRC and in some ways the IBT.
I wish all of you at Fed Ex the best, several of my friend's went there 4 mos. ago, all had 12 or more years here and felt they made a good move getting on with Fed Ex, all are on the cut list now at Fed Ex. I feel for all of you and I am sending prayers to all of you and to all the driver's employed by YRC..Union and Non Union, an unemployment check does not discriminate against either, we all are just trying to get through this world the best we can. God bless.
