November 19, 2010: YRC local management wasted no time scurrying to implement the newly ratified agreement at the barns, and in ways that destroy long-standing practices. At the Copley Ohio breakbulk, their high-handed actions included firing a shop steward for a nonexistent work slowdown.
A strong pushback from members and Local 24 helped to reinstate the steward and to stop unilateral changes, at least for now.
Normally contract changes as big as those in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) would be implemented with the agreement of the union. But at Copley, and some other terminals, management is using the MOU as an excuse to do whatever they want.
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A strong pushback from members and Local 24 helped to reinstate the steward and to stop unilateral changes, at least for now.
Normally contract changes as big as those in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) would be implemented with the agreement of the union. But at Copley, and some other terminals, management is using the MOU as an excuse to do whatever they want.
read more.............