Yellow | Not Sure If I Can Afford Union Dues Anymore

You have no pension and will continue this trend for the next 5 years add that to the 10 years you've either had no contributions or the same 25%. Your pension should be fully funded. Get a little now and then a lot at the end of the road. Your also getting less than $1.00 a year. 5 years is an eternity. You accepted a return of a week of vacation you were already entitled to that so that's a push.
Take into consideration the run down equipment the lack of any new hires this should be screaming out to you. Not 1 person has said hey where did all of our freight go. It's on the back of the competition trailers. You fell for the ibt scare job. Remember your ba the big wigs at the ibt all make more than you and will get full pensions. I'm parachuting out tonight. I'm not going to devote another 5 years for a company that's circling the drain. The pension was and is the most important thing and the yes voters blew it for $4 and a week of vacation.
Fair enough.
When saia comes to a town near you and starts at $27hr you'll see the exodus.
https://www.saia.com/about-us/work-for-us
They're here..They won't hire us.
 
We control the freight. Without us there is no yrc. They can't find help they are in debt for nearly a billion there only chip would be bankruptcy and with the amount of truck driver jobs open you wouldn't be out of work long. There is life outside yrc, just need to see it.
You should go to UPS...Lehigh Valley is probably still hiring...They hire outside of UPS here due to driver shortage and lack of interest from within....Huge stuff going on here..If you can handle making less than us for a couple of years maybe you'll be happy...I took vacation and tried it but didn't want to go backwards for the last few years my kids were in school....I didn't really care for it..Wish I had the chance when younger...but ain't into it now...Lots of Amazon stuff going on here. You make big bucks if you like doubles and all big and wide trailers..I like New Penn, small, thin, short 45's. No doubles.
 
Not trying to rub anything in or anything but really wondering exactly what you thought we could get besides what they came out with....How much? I proposed $35/hour because I truly believe that anybody in LTL should get that if UPS get $37 for a job where they touch no freight at all.........But really didn't expect it..It is what we're worth and should be the pay...but done ,by-each individual company in the whole business...it keeps it from happeneing..
What did you think we should have gotten?
I heard a lot of no-voters...but saw no proposals......the only proposal was...vote no.
Ups has the $$$$$ to pay those wages
 
You have no pension and will continue this trend for the next 5 years add that to the 10 years you've either had no contributions or the same 25%. Your pension should be fully funded. Get a little now and then a lot at the end of the road. Your also getting less than $1.00 a year. 5 years is an eternity. You accepted a return of a week of vacation you were already entitled to that so that's a push.
Take into consideration the run down equipment the lack of any new hires this should be screaming out to you. Not 1 person has said hey where did all of our freight go. It's on the back of the competition trailers. You fell for the ibt scare job. Remember your ba the big wigs at the ibt all make more than you and will get full pensions. I'm parachuting out tonight. I'm not going to devote another 5 years for a company that's circling the drain. The pension was and is the most important thing and the yes voters blew it for $4 and a week of vacation.
Boy you really have me confused. In one post you say Yrc can afford to pay a lot more but then in the next you say Yrc has lost all their business and our freight is on competitors trucks. Then you say you want Yrc to pay a lot more but you’ll be very happy to work for another carrier for $14/hr all straight time. That Steely Dan album comes to mind-Pretzel Logic!!
 
Ups has the $$$$$ to pay those wages
If you saw how they operate and know what they pay...you'd wonder how.
Just like New Penn guys wonder how YRC is still making it.

I think somehow some way we need a major change in how the union is formed and how correct wages can be made to happen...it isn't by organizing by company imo.....a new way must be thought up...a way where drivers can get the wages and comp they deserve. This way hasn't been working since deregulation...way too long for the injustices to go on..too many years of peoples lives not being compensated for the real worth........it's a sham for the investprs and companies this way.
There's a driver shortage...and under the present union organizing and contract by company system......we should be making buku bucks.....but this system is designed so it can't be done. When there is a shortage of educated professionals, this does not happen. Under the theories of economics that the 'experts' preach about say tht shortage brings big money and better schedules for those the economy needs, and an overabundance of labor or professionals in a certain industry or profession brings less pay...and it is wrong the way it's been working imo.
 
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I think the union of a trade should be throughout the whole industry of the trade. Perhaps right-to-work should be allowed...but they can't have it both ways...the way they do now,only in favor of the company or nonions. Just as they have a right to work at a place who went through the sham of an organizing process which is abusive and as lowlife as it gets with the unionbusters and decertifiers,.........we too should have a right and the benefits of a union wherever we work...and a majority vote should not be needed to do that anywhere. Something long these lines needs to happen to have an affect. As it stands we must rely on companies with investors who can move their money around anywhere to keep making money....yet if we want more we are stuck trying to keep a small amount of companies alive if we want to remain in existence.............this can not work....we need to have a presence in all companies of our trade.....and there should be a rate that union members get and vote on throughout our whole trade...not according to what company can afford....but a rate all companies must pay for our trade to our members.....and we could slow the whole industry with a strike...no matter what companies we dominate............somehow we cannot be limited by majority votes for union membership in a company is what I am saying......I surely don't know details....but I do know that something more fair and just must be thought up. This isn't working......the past few years have seen drives at FEDEX freight and XPO...and others....those guys who voted yes to the union could be with us somehow....and those who are nonoins can stay nonions......Doing it by company limits everybody......and we are forced to either vote yes because our companies can't afford us or vote no..and close the place. It doesn't work......and Hoffa should've come up with a different plan by now.
 
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It's not the money, it's the reality that the union could care less about us as long as we keep paying dues.
Dismantling the original NMFA by the union took away any bargaining power by separating all the companies.
Now we get the union threats.
What's next?
Combine us all together so the company can get rid of more people?
Sad....you work here most of your adult life and this is all there is.
Sorry for whining, had to vent.
Good luck to all
Ibt rallied for them on both prior, now this, also text a lot of people saying vote yes, really behind us & not company...hmmm
 
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