FedEx Freight | Unionize
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UnderstoodThe trailer, it was Joisey afterall.
The trailer, it was Joisey afterall.
Youze got a problem wit dat??
Unionize ???? You better have "Patel" crunch the numbers for you as Union pay scale is 15% below non-union pay scale , but Union does get health insurance and slowest trucks on the interstate , so you get more overtime pay , because company can't figure out that faster trucks & new aerodynamic mirrors would cut O.T. pay ! But bottom line that is most important is HOME TIME !! So choose Home Time over $$$$$$$$ 
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HOME TIME
Not me Tony!!
HighDollarLane
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3 months paid vacation double the pay rate free healthcare and we get to watch UPS teamsters druel ill be on board. ....NOT...Never gonna happen. You can talk and sell unioun all you want. There's no union right now doing anything good! Anyone seen usf Holland lately. Ups parcel is a fluke. Even then its going by the wayside. To unionize is to sell your soul to the devil. Hey look bell-bottoms were in in the 70s. So was the unions. But in 2022 I won't wear Bell bottoms and I will never unioionize. Unions are like a crazy x gf. They look sexy at first but when morning comes they won't let you go! Sorry dude you would have better luck selling used cars on an ocean liner!
The union looked sexy in 1957, even more so in 1990 when I drew my first C S check, they're still rolling in.
I can't complain.
Even worse some won't even stop to take a leak or eat a sandwich!!! SMDH
Out here in the wild west, I hear at least twice a week, you sound just like the gangsters in the movies. My response, bull$$$t, they all sound like us. This is the way I've always talked, decades before it was " fashionable". Arrrggghhh
So you speak Pirate. I hear in Southern so I never could understand Y'all from up NY way. Damn Yankees.
There is no driver shortage and I know people at some bigger ltl carriers working less than 30 hours a week
No F-bdy Bs
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There is no driver shortage.
There is a shortage of well paying class A jobs.
No different than any fast food establishment.
Drive down ANY strip, and every FF joint has a "We're hiring" banner out front.
They're all paying the exact same wage to start, so what's the incentive? Why work at X as opposed to Y?
Same with CDL jobs.
There is a shortage of well paying class A jobs.
No different than any fast food establishment.
Drive down ANY strip, and every FF joint has a "We're hiring" banner out front.
They're all paying the exact same wage to start, so what's the incentive? Why work at X as opposed to Y?
Same with CDL jobs.
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Yea okay Valerie...
Snaponfan1
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I did 11 years in the Union. If FedEx became Union I would leave. 11 years of watching many mechanics do nothing but smoke, coke and joke never get disciplined, never accountable. I left Holland my buddy stayed there another 15 years, never changed, only the names changed. I would rather succeed or fail at my own hand, not have my job security based on a sponge who sleeps on the clock and wants to strike because he don't want to work
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Just out of curiosity, if you hated it that bad, why did you hang around for 11 years?
And what was the “last straw” that made you leave? Every company has the ”sponges” as you call them both union and non-union. And most that I know don’t want to strike, they simply want a good contract to work under.
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Right , time stealers are what I call them and my FDXF barn is loaded with them .
Razorblade
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EXACTLY!!!
That is what unions do. They destroy individual work ethic. There is no reward for a job well done. No chance to advance because the slug was hired a day before you.
Mediocrity is not good enough in a competitive industry.