Informed sources have told me that the company have made proposals they want voted on by employeess, in the next few days will be widly known...
1 Pay Freeeze for all non cdl employees
2 get rid of ot after 8 ot only after 40
3 contribution rate to H&W will be dropped to .25 cents per hour
4 increase use of purchased transportation
These are issues you need to contact your local on and just wanted to let everyone know what could possibly be out there on the horizon
(This was posted for KK by Jeff)
A sign of the times.
It appears Corporate behavior has reached new lows just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. For all you non union people out there, if this was your company they would just implement it! At least we have a say on it.
This is what I believe, companies in the US know the working person is vulnerable so they are going for the juggler by keeping hiring real low and making current workers do more. It's been occurring in our industry for years via subcontracting. Seniority lists shrink while cartage increases!
US Companies are still making a profit, just look at the stock market ( well above 15,0000 ) someone is making money! Why is all the US job growth in low paying jobs, two reasons:
1- easy for the employer to control those workers psychologically along with being more profitable
2- by design, because if you had a choice to go somewhere else to keep what you have you'd be long gone
This is the time to most vigilant and strong but yet our union continually operates from a concessionary stance. Why? Because in the past selling out the new guy was an easy way to keep the status quo for the current guys. Then it evolved a little to chop away what the current workers had "won" in the past. Now the companies' greed know no bounds and the crumbs from the past bargaining accomplishments are not enough to satiate them. They want what little you have left.
Hoffa too dumb to realize this? I think not, he seems to be more on their side than ours. The evidence of his contract legacy is evidence enough and speaks for itself.
Unfortunately the pendulum is swinging back to the employer side and this time will be that much more difficult to pull it back at the very least to the middle. With all the anti union laws and etc in place you can forget about getting it back to our side, so settling for middle ground may very well the best we hope to achieve, but continuing on this current path we are only pushing the " pendulum " further to their side and away from anything we would hope to achieve.
The membership has a gigantic decision to make. How to stop it, roll the dice and say no more as the future either way is almost the same.