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icuicp said:
I guess there's more to this thread than where people have gone with it:

Even without a union and/or the government providing fully paid healthcare , there's nothing stopping employers from offering fully paid medical coverage.

Put it like this - all benefits have a cost , that cost is a part of an employee's total compensation. Allow the cost to be passed along to the employees like it is with other benefits. Companies pick what benefits to offer based largely on what will attract and retain good employees.

Offering fully paid , top to bottom healthcare at XPO would solve several problems and save some money ( one could argue )
1.) Immediately would save money by not having to fight unionization ( I'm sure there would be those still wanting to organize but honestly , would there be enough if a gesture like this was made? )
2.) Turnover would drop dramatically. Recruiting employees would be easier. Getting good , family oriented people would follow having top healthcare
3.) Free advertising. If top to bottom healthcare were offered , it would be news. Good publicity for a company that has had negative headlines quite a bit lately
4.) And finally , for the executives , they wouldn't look like clueless , follow-the-leader , copycats. Instead of gimmicky B.S. , this type of move would inspire loyalty and dedication while lifting morale.

I'm not a fan of increasing government and lately unions haven't been able to fight the money and political power of these large corporations.

All it would take is one large company to do this and the dam would break. Take cell phones for example. For years , service providers told us it was too expensive to have unlimited. It wouldn't work. It's better the way it is. Then one company offered unlimited , and boom!!! Everyone is offering unlimited ( sorry Canada ) Healthcare can be the same.
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XPO could have saved a small fortune by following your advice. When Miami filed for certification, I went to the annual Conway shareholders meeting in Detroit and was permitted 3 minutes to speak by proxy. After the meeting was over, DS (I don't know if I can use his name), actually approached me and asked me to convey his apologies to the Miami employees. He stated that they were unaware of the conditions we were facing.

We spoke for 2 or 3 minutes and I said to him, with all due respect, "Now that you are aware of the issues, why not do something to alleviate them". He said that he wished he could...and nothing more. Of course, the deal with XPO was already done. If I had this list in my pocket, and was able to find an ear willing to listen, there might never have been a Union Thread on these boards.

The sad part is that the Team Care proposal could be tweaked so as not to cost the company a single dime more than they are paying now. It would no longer be zero premium, but it would be a world better than the Cigna junk we have now.
 
icuicp said:
If our top executives ever asked you or the other employees what you want more , which would it be?

More money as far as pay?

Or , better benefits ( retirement , healthcare , uniforms , etc. )

Personally , if the choice was an equal one , I'd take the better benefits. No one ever asks us over the past few years , about what employees prefer - in the past the at least made an attempt to do surveys and what not.
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Guys at my barn, with families, are paying between 100.00 and 150.00 per week in premiums for a junk policy that covers NOTHING. I'll take the benefits which translate into a 5K to 7.5K per year raise for them and a policy that will actually pay for most of their health care costs. I don't know if any of us will ever see a pension again, but a fair increase into our 401K contributions would be nice.

Just a side note...if 22,000 employees spoke with one voice, we'd have so much more than we have now. I've been around way too long and I remember how it used to be.
 
Hollywoodz said:
XPO could have saved a small fortune by following your advice. When Miami filed for certification, I went to the annual Conway shareholders meeting in Detroit and was permitted 3 minutes to speak by proxy. After the meeting was over, DS (I don't know if I can use his name), actually approached me and asked me to convey his apologies to the Miami employees. He stated that they were unaware of the conditions we were facing.

We spoke for 2 or 3 minutes and I said to him, with all due respect, "Now that you are aware of the issues, why not do something to alleviate them". He said that he wished he could...and nothing more. Of course, the deal with XPO was already done. If I had this list in my pocket, and was able to find an ear willing to listen, there might never have been a Union Thread on these boards.

The sad part is that the Team Care proposal could be tweaked so as not to cost the company a single dime more than they are paying now. It would no longer be zero premium, but it would be a world better than the Cigna junk we have now.
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Agree 100% !
 
Hollywoodz said:
XPO could have saved a small fortune by following your advice. When Miami filed for certification, I went to the annual Conway shareholders meeting in Detroit and was permitted 3 minutes to speak by proxy. After the meeting was over, DS (I don't know if I can use his name), actually approached me and asked me to convey his apologies to the Miami employees. He stated that they were unaware of the conditions we were facing.

We spoke for 2 or 3 minutes and I said to him, with all due respect, "Now that you are aware of the issues, why not do something to alleviate them". He said that he wished he could...and nothing more. Of course, the deal with XPO was already done. If I had this list in my pocket, and was able to find an ear willing to listen, there might never have been a Union Thread on these boards.

The sad part is that the Team Care proposal could be tweaked so as not to cost the company a single dime more than they are paying now. It would no longer be zero premium, but it would be a world better than the Cigna junk we have now.
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We got the same reply at Philadelphia from upper management. It all could have been avoided if they would of fixed it. The unwillingness too do so spoke volumes. Jacobs was in control and the coarse had been set . 3 of the big wigs I personally spoke with on separate occasions (off the record) were very concerned for our future as a company. Now their all gone.
 
BabyJ5525 said:
Agree 100% !
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Ditto
Hollywoodz said:
Guys at my barn, with families, are paying between 100.00 and 150.00 per week in premiums for a junk policy that covers NOTHING. I'll take the benefits which translate into a 5K to 7.5K per year raise for them and a policy that will actually pay for most of their health care costs. I don't know if any of us will ever see a pension again, but a fair increase into our 401K contributions would be nice.

Just a side note...if 22,000 employees spoke with one voice, we'd have so much more than we have now. I've been around way too long and I remember how it used to be.
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100% on the money. You have to stand your ground when it comes to people like Jacobs . Look around. All The signs are there.
 
Hollywoodz said:
XPO could have saved a small fortune by following your advice. When Miami filed for certification, I went to the annual Conway shareholders meeting in Detroit and was permitted 3 minutes to speak by proxy. After the meeting was over, DS (I don't know if I can use his name), actually approached me and asked me to convey his apologies to the Miami employees. He stated that they were unaware of the conditions we were facing.

We spoke for 2 or 3 minutes and I said to him, with all due respect, "Now that you are aware of the issues, why not do something to alleviate them". He said that he wished he could...and nothing more. Of course, the deal with XPO was already done. If I had this list in my pocket, and was able to find an ear willing to listen, there might never have been a Union Thread on these boards.

The sad part is that the Team Care proposal could be tweaked so as not to cost the company a single dime more than they are paying now. It would no longer be zero premium, but it would be a world better than the Cigna junk we have now.
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"America used to be a society that rewarded people that did things , now we reward people that stop things" former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

This is where we have fallen to.
 
sucker666 said:
We got the same reply at Philadelphia from upper management. It all could have been avoided if they would of fixed it. The unwillingness too do so spoke volumes. Jacobs was in control and the coarse had been set . 3 of the big wigs I personally spoke with on separate occasions (off the record) were very concerned for our future as a company. Now their all gone.
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They are all gone because there is no future. We all knew this back when they bought us. It's not fresh information. It's just that much closer to the end than it was before.
 
icuicp said:
"America used to be a society that rewarded people that did things , now we reward people that stop things" former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

This is where we have fallen to.
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Soon enough we will all stop working. I will be wanting my reward.
 
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