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Originally Posted by Guaranteed 8  The companies you work for are in fragile economic shape. Trust your leadership. Back in 1979 when the trucking industry was deregulated. Jacky Presser saw that this would destroy goog union jobs. So he tried to negotiate a more flexible NMFA. The memebers voted it down. There were some 500,000 plus Teamster truck drivers back then, now there are about 50,000. |
And gasoline was .25c when I was young.
That was then this is now
If they could be trusted we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we.
Haven't you read any of these boards or spoken to anyone under NMFA?
I would advise that you get the background before you speak.
So why not a 2 or 3 year contract, to give the companies some economic breathing space? Why a 5 year contract?
Has YOUR mortgage gone down?
Has YOUR gasoline gone down?
Has YOUR H&W deductible or co-pay gone down?
Has the cost of food gone down.
Hoffa got a $77,000.00 raise this year, what did YOU get, LESS THAN 1%, that's what you got. If you are in freight. That's pretty satisfying isn't it!
How much do the heads of these companies get?
Check out Hollands Zo;;ars here.
William D. Zollars
When you get done with dollar bill just type in the name of any company's head person, then expand the web and see all the interconnectedness across corporate America.
Type any of their names into your browser and you can find out what their salaries are.
Then come back here and talk about how we should roll over cuz they are having a hard time.
What is it?