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Comes along a rich man and he hires you to work for him. There are 10 employees in the shop, including you. Each of you earn 50K per year. At the end of the first year, the company posts a 1 million dollar NET profit. Fair enough. You and the other 9 employees work hard to make this company successful. at the end of the second year, the company posts a 2 million dollar profit. Same employees...same expenses. How much of a raise should you get? And, who decides?
50K a year is over $24 per hour. For one I have to ask whats the bennies package like? For some it not about the pay rate
I have a had time believing that the owner of this company wont give out some sort of raise?
Also how long has this owner been working to get his company off the ground?
This analogy is very bad. I worked for small companies and if you work and do you job they will respect you.
You told use once you had you own company how many did you employee? and for how long?
So when compensation time comes around, it is to their sole discretion as to what we earn and what benefits we receive. Don't believe it...check the Policies and Procedures manual. Under General Policies, page 5.

XPO RESERVES THE RIGHT TO INTERPRET, AMEND, MODIFY AND/OR TERMINATE THESE POLICIES AT ANY TIME, AS WELL AS THE BENEFITS PLANS REFERRED TO IN THIS HANDBOOK, WITH OR WITHOUT ADVANCE NOTICE.

SO, THIS SAYS DON'T BOTHER READING THE MANUAL BECAUSE THEY CAN DO ANYTHING THEY WANT, ANY TIME THEY WANT, TO ANYONE THEY WANT, WITHOUT NOTICE...
You are an "at will" employee. You are free to leave your job (that's a benefit, right) and they can fire you...just because!
Will you stop pushing this. CCX,CSE,CWE/ Conway had the same policy. You were hired under it so nothing has changed over the years.
You're making a delivery to an abusive customer. The guy is always in a bad mood. This one day, you've had enough and snap back at him. No profanity, just a terse response. The next day, your TM calls you in and fires you. It seems this customer wrote an email, accusing you of urinating in your trailer while parked in his dock. No witnesses, no video and no corroboration of any kind. You're fired anyway. This actually happened to one of our guys.
I dealt with alot of angry customers of the years and I have learn the best thing to do is to smile and say nothing. It called the Roadhouse temperament. I works wanders. Be nice.
The one thing that is left out of this was, what was that drivers work history like. Has he had complaints basiclly a problem child.
 
You are free to bring up anything you want at any time, but please try to be accurate when you do. The Butch Lewis Act would LOAN the cash needed to refund the CSPF, however, there are provisions in the act that would require the money to be repaid with interest. Much like the auto industry bail out that was fully repaid to the federal government...with interest.
and what product does the union sell to help repay the LOANED money???? Are they going to sell cookies outside of walmart?
 
Union membership is on the rise again and will continue despite the stalled efforts of the XPO campaign. And you will see that the XPO campaign will move forward again soon. There is a surge in recipients currently, as baby boomers retire and the current stagnant membership is clearly having difficulty keeping up. However, that situation will be reversed in 30 years and there is good reason to believe that increasing membership, good management the fund and the decline in eligible recipients will give this plan a good chance to succeed.
Are you sure. The reports I have seen say differently https://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-membership-declined-in-2018/ https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/how-union-membership-has-changed-in-recent-years/
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/...ears-of-shrinking-union-membership-in-one-map
The bailout worked for the Auto industry, despite the deepest concerns of conservatives. This bailout could very well work here. How many of your tax dollars went to the bailout of the banks in 2009? You are aware that not all of the banks repaid the TARP money they were loaned. Did you voice your concern over that?
I was against the auto and bank bailouts even though they have a way to repay the money. I am total against the Butch Lewis act and here why. The union has done nothing to help themselves. They allowed UPS to buy there way out of CSPF. The allowed YRCW and ABF to freeze or keep there reduced amount they pay in. I believe that taxpayer has no business fix this problem. CSPF is a private fund just like my private funds the only different theirs is a group fund and mine is for me. I, like other seem to have no problem putting a percentage of our checks, raises, and bonus to our retirement plan. Were as the Union member think he doesn't need to put into it. I have a friend that is a union member and he is REQUIRED to put in 5% of his gross check into the pension fund and guess what.... It's is going very well and per the last report he told me it was over funded. Before the govt steps in the members themselves need to pony up and help themselves first before seeking any govt help.
 
Are you sure. The reports I have seen say differently https://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-membership-declined-in-2018/ https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/how-union-membership-has-changed-in-recent-years/
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/...ears-of-shrinking-union-membership-in-one-map

I was against the auto and bank bailouts even though they have a way to repay the money. I am total against the Butch Lewis act and here why. The union has done nothing to help themselves. They allowed UPS to buy there way out of CSPF. The allowed YRCW and ABF to freeze or keep there reduced amount they pay in. I believe that taxpayer has no business fix this problem. CSPF is a private fund just like my private funds the only different theirs is a group fund and mine is for me. I, like other seem to have no problem putting a percentage of our checks, raises, and bonus to our retirement plan. Were as the Union member think he doesn't need to put into it. I have a friend that is a union member and he is REQUIRED to put in 5% of his gross check into the pension fund and guess what.... It's is going very well and per the last report he told me it was over funded. Before the govt steps in the members themselves need to pony up and help themselves first before seeking any govt help.

I am in favor of Butch Lewis, but other than that, I can't argue too much with this one. My only comment would be that every one in the fund had a reasonable expectation that their contributions, or the company's contributions, often made in lieu of pay raises, would provide them with a fairly comfortable retirement, when added to their social security benefit. There may be many causes for the fund's collapse, but in no way was it the fault of the members. It's unfair to those who didn't create and contribute to a private fund, because they expected their pension to be there when they needed it.
 
50K a year is over $24 per hour. For one I have to ask whats the bennies package like? For some it not about the pay rate
I have a had time believing that the owner of this company wont give out some sort of raise?
Also how long has this owner been working to get his company off the ground?
This analogy is very bad. I worked for small companies and if you work and do you job they will respect you.
You told use once you had you own company how many did you employee? and for how long?

Maybe not a great analogy, but the point I was trying to make is that you have no input whatsoever in your compensation package or your working conditions. Some companies prove me wrong, i.e. Costco and Chobani Yogurt and I'm sure there are many others. But, the vast majority of companies will give ONLY what they have to in order to keep their employees pacified.

In 1972, I bought my first truck. By 1977, I had three on the road. It was complicated, confusing and I found I did better financially on my own. Sold all 3 and bought a new International. From that point on, I simply farmed out my overflow to IC's.
 
I dealt with alot of angry customers of the years and I have learn the best thing to do is to smile and say nothing. It called the Roadhouse temperament. I works wanders. Be nice.
The one thing that is left out of this was, what was that drivers work history like. Has he had complaints basiclly a problem child.

Regular guy, no previous complaints, a few LOI's on record, but not a problem child by any means. A 10 year employee who was always nice, based on people who knew him much longer than I. The point was that the company will terminate you even if the accusations against you are false. I've seen then terminate an employee based on a phone call from another employee to corporate. They are terrified of law suits and will throw you under the bus in a heart beat.
 
Will you stop pushing this. CCX,CSE,CWE/ Conway had the same policy. You were hired under it so nothing has changed over the years.

Did you read the Policy and Procedures manual when you were hired? I don't know anyone who did. I'm betting most of the drivers reading this didn't either. It's a fair tactic to expose things others may not know that supports my position. You seem a little more thorough than most. Not everyone is like that. You can take that as a compliment...
 
and what product does the union sell to help repay the LOANED money???? Are they going to sell cookies outside of walmart?

They don't need to sell a product. If Butch Lewis passes, and the fund is made whole, there is no reason why people can't be asked to or given the choice to participate in the fund again. With increased contributions, dwindling number of recipients and a competent, well respected fund manager, there is no reason why this fund can't be viable again. Remember, the Act extends repayments over 30 years. In 30 years, all the boomers will be in a better place (dead) and the contributions may catch up to or maybe even surpass the payouts.
 
Are you sure. The reports I have seen say differently

Here's a couple of articles that support the premise. I think the first half 2019 may be the most prolific union recruiting time in recent history. Even millennials are jumping on board. Of course, we won't know that until the numbers are released early in 2020.

https://www.the74million.org/article/union-numbers-rise-modestly-across-u-s-despite-decline-among-local-government-workers/

https://www.thenation.com/article/millennials-are-keeping-unions-alive/
 
If abortion and illegal immigration stopped what would the republicans have to scare you with ? College ? Clean air? The boogie man?
How naive. I am now and always have been a Republican. NOTHING scares me about their policy. I agree with the vast majority of what they propose and stand for. Especially their ideas on labor unions. Your ridicule is wasted when directed towards me and my beliefs. Unions overwhelmingly support democrats, democrats overwhelmingly support ideas that are the antithesis of my beliefs. By the way, the boogie man wore an ugly pantsuit and was called the hildabeast.
 
I think it’s better said why any working class person would vote for current Republicans because of their stance against labor with the the bulk majority of them. We get the gun rights and abortion thing but your paying to high a price with them opposing anything good for labor. Also the immigration thing is not going to lead to higher paying jobs for America citizens.
So let me understand. You want open boarders for everyone to enter the USA. ( a democrat policy idea ) Give all these people free healthcare, free college and free lawyers to shepard them through our legal system. ( a democrat policy idea )You think that will help the labor situation here in the USA? Sorry guy but you and I will never see eye to eye. By the way killing an unborn human in the ninth month of gestation is more than a "thing." Just my opinion.
 
GM and Chrysler did NOT repay all they borrowed from taxpayers. Ford did not take a bailout.

CSPF has been in the red since 1984. Mismanagement should not be rewarded. Let it die.
 
So let me understand. You want open boarders for everyone to enter the USA. ( a democrat policy idea ) Give all these people free healthcare, free college and free lawyers to shepard them through our legal system. ( a democrat policy idea )You think that will help the labor situation here in the USA? Sorry guy but you and I will never see eye to eye. By the way killing an unborn human in the ninth month of gestation is more than a "thing." Just my opinion.

It would be important for you to express the ideas of the Democratic party correctly. You have listed Fox News interpretation of those policies. However, not one thing you posted actually reflects the Democratic Party platform. The ONE thing you did address correctly is the free healthcare for all illegal immigrants...and I promise you that position will moderate as the debate field shrinks. It will disappear once the Democratic Party candidate is chosen. It makes sense to no one. We may never see eye to eye, but lets at least define the argument accurately.
 
GM and Chrysler did NOT repay all they borrowed from taxpayers. Ford did not take a bailout.

CSPF has been in the red since 1984. Mismanagement should not be rewarded. Let it die.

In fact, GM and Chrysler did repay their loans per conditions of the TARP program. The caveat is that the federal government took stock and part ownership of both companies as part of the bailout. When they sold the stock back to repay the debt, there was a 10 billion dollar shortfall in the purchase price of the stock. So, your post is accurate in the sense that the bailout did cost taxpayers 10 billion dollars. Do you think it would have been better to let those companies fail and destroy the American Auto market? How much would it have cost the taxpayers then?

I don't think it's fair to punish pension recipients for the mismanagement of the fund, especially if they had no say in the appointment of the managers.

Maybe we should have let the banks fail? That's what Iceland did? I know they sent multiple bank executives to jail but I don't know how they resolved the crisis. I do know their economy rebounded very well.
 
So let me understand. You want open boarders for everyone to enter the USA. ( a democrat policy idea ) Give all these people free healthcare, free college and free lawyers to shepard them through our legal system. ( a democrat policy idea )You think that will help the labor situation here in the USA? Sorry guy but you and I will never see eye to eye. By the way killing an unborn human in the ninth month of gestation is more than a "thing." Just my opinion.
You want open boarders for everyone to enter the USA
nope , your words not mine
 
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