Portland Teamsters were forced to listen to
to Ed VP lament the costs of our pension and
healthcare programs today. He alluded that in order to get new young drivers interested to work at Oak Harbor Freight Lines
it would be necessary to offer his new
benefit package. How unfortunate for all the workers that built OHFL. Those working and those retired , whose access to good medical benefits will be cut off. The plan may also cause any employee with five or more years in the Teamster Pension to leave for other jobs thus negating the new workers theory. I'm confused!
Also with all of these savings they hope to open new facilities in Calif. Very Christian!

Listen. You need to try and keep your head up, regardless of how hopeless the situation may seem!
Your gonna have to take a more active roll and start talking to your friends, and even co-workers you might not see eye to eye with and get on the same page. That page being your all gonna have to come together and vote down whatever crap they give you till they give you something worth working for. I realize it's easy for everyone to say STRIKE, but everyone forgets that when it comes time to pick up that picket sign. Yall are just going to have to send a message to these fine Christian people that have a bad habit of screwing you before you do to them!!
NO GOBBLERS!!!

We,the Teamster employees of OHFL are not going to entertain this "choices" package the company is puking out.We choose to be Union and will remain Union at all costs...period.All the company is doing is putting their feelers out to see where the employees are at.Personally,I think their gonna hurt themselves on this deal,Non-union terminals are already asking about card check neutrality.

The VP family does not understand that health care and pensions are part of doing business. If they think people are going to stand by and just let these things hapen, they are mistaken. They claim that they need more flexibility. I'm sorry but they already have more than most union carriers do already. Now they want more. That cannot happen or the Oak Harbor employees might as well decert because the only thing they will have left is a grievance panel. At some point the members must take a stand. The question is, how long do you continue to allow this type of behavior from your employer before you take that stand? IMO it should be done sooner rather than later so you don't give up everything before you have the fight. If you wait to long, your in the situation the Oak Harbor folks are now in. I think this stand should have been taken quite some time ago but hey that is just my opinion.

You are wrong...you are wrong! You are just wrong!!!!!

Ed Vander Pol is a good man and a good Christian regardless of the muck you throw at him or how bad you paint him to be. He is not screwing anyone over.!!!