Union Debate and News

[slim66]

I love know it all truck drivers. If you are so smart... how did you end up a truck driver ?

Its not hard to retain facts as they play out. Are you able to retain anything that wasn't conway programmed? There are plenty of smart truck drivers out there, you just don't relate to them. Can you refute any of the facts presented?

[smokin'joe]

Funny how people still notice skin color before the issues......sad, sad.

[Con-F-Trucker]

Funny how people still notice skin color before the issues......sad, sad.

Your Right Both Parties Screwed this Country Up and its Got nothin to do with Skin Color And they are Still Screwing it up !!!
Cause they too Damed Busy Pointing Fingers at Each other Rather than Fixxing the Real Problem !!!!
Same Damed Thing Is Wrong at Con~way All the Top Brass Pointing Finger s At Each other Saying Its Your Fault You Did It Now you Fix IT !!
Meanwhile Nobody is Fixxing The Damed Problem And Things Just Keep Getting Worse !! So My ??? is When Does This RollerCoaster Stop !!
We All Better Pray it Does Before We all get Derailed !!!

[White Shirt]

I have a real question for TeamIBT. What happens if a company will not agree to any union "requests" during negotiations? How long can it generaly take if the company is anti-union. How does the mediator thing work? Does either side have to use the mediator if they don't want to?

[TeamIBT]

I have a real question for TeamIBT. What happens if a company will not agree to any union "requests" during negotiations? How long can it generaly take if the company is anti-union. How does the mediator thing work? Does either side have to use the mediator if they don't want to?

Generally after a NLRB election the government rules are the union and the company have one year to negotiate a contract. After that one year the company could go and ask the employees to vote the union out. Now if the company willfully drags the negotiations on (as they usually do) then the union has means to pressure the company to negotiate in good faith. If they come to an impass then a federal mediator will come to play and then things will more likely get moving.

[ssadab]

ABF filed a lawsuit because they wanted the same concessions as YRC. They stated that YRC reneged on their part of the contract. And the courts agreed with them.

ABF points to three amendments to the NMFA which grant significant wage and benefit concessions to the YRC Companies. ABF asserts that by conducting exclusive negotiations and amending the NMFA to benefit only the YRC Companies, the named parties have violated the NMFA. The amendments violate provisions of the NMFA that create a single bargaining unit consisting of all employers and employees covered by the NMFA, and that prohibit other individual or collective contracts. The amendments also tilt the industry playing field, put ABF at a competitive disadvantage, and thereby threaten its business and, ultimately, the job security of its own employees.

Doesn't look like the union created much of a level playing field....

[White Shirt]

Generally after a NLRB election the government rules are the union and the company have one year to negotiate a contract. After that one year the company could go and ask the employees to vote the union out. Now if the company willfully drags the negotiations on (as they usually do) then the union has means to pressure the company to negotiate in good faith. If they come to an impass then a federal mediator will come to play and then things will more likely get moving.

What means does the union have to pressure the company? What if the company won't work with the mediator?

[White Shirt]

Generally after a NLRB election the government rules are the union and the company have one year to negotiate a contract. After that one year the company could go and ask the employees to vote the union out. Now if the company willfully drags the negotiations on (as they usually do) then the union has means to pressure the company to negotiate in good faith. If they come to an impass then a federal mediator will come to play and then things will more likely get moving.

Also you say generally 1 year. Is there a hard number or could the company draw it out as long as they wanted?

[ldgarrit]

I said this:

Herman Cain rocks! It's message not money that will get this guy the nomination and ultimately the title of 45th POTUS.

Does the assassination of Martin Luther King ring a bell?

Just what the hell does that mean?!

[beerfd]

Does the assassination of Martin Luther King ring a bell?

I said this:




Just what the hell does that mean?!

Yeah, that crazy.. he better be looking out for the secret service to come knocking on his door.