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Originally Posted by JimBob i just thought of something else that may shed a little more light on my thoughts:
when Estes took over everyone got a .01cpm raise, 500 miles + 1cnt = 5 dollars aka payment for fueling.
also our vacation pay went from 40 hour week to 1200 dollars a week, thats like 200 dollars more a week.
our chaining pay went up to 12.00 to chain 10.00 to unchain, thats up from 20.25 an hour that we were making. = 2 dollar more
and the one that i find the funniest. Estes got rid of that dumb split-pay schedule. let me explain to my understanding if you were hired before april 2003 your top scale was .52cpm after that your top scale was .49cpm, now is that FAIR??? and from what i have heard the same people that are all " we are looking out for everyone in the company thats why we are threating the union " are the same people that had absolutly NO problem with the split pay. now to me thats BS!!!!!
over all if everyone would stop whining and start looking at your pay check you just might see that you are making the same if not MORE money than with G.I.
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That cpm split is exactally why I left GI. I kept asking if they were going to change it and nobody could answer this, after a year of this I left. I agree with you about the split it is very unfair. I was told by management that after Arkansas Best Corp. left they took alot of accounts and GI employees at that time were not working, maybe a day or two a week. (I heard this also from a senior employee.) This and the froze pension was the reason for the split. (Rewarding senior employees for remaining loyal during rough times.)
The only problem with this is some of the employees did not go though the slow times and came in after the pension was frozen were still getting the .51 cpm (at that time) while we were at the .44-47 cpm. scale. No one in management or HR could explain this.
Now with that being said and if what you say is true, (that Estes fixed this) why didn't they say so After purchase? I was still an employee for a few months after, or was it the threat of Unionizing that brought this on?
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