History certainly supports your opinion.
Nobody was forced to stay I tried to leave l when we took the cut but no 1 wanted a 42 yr old dock worker. I still made a good living for 14 yrs 93,000 gross last yr with great insurance not bad for 10th grade drop out with no skills. Now I have suck it for 5 yrs till I turn 62. Southeastern has shot my down 14 times in 4 months 7 times at each terminal in Houston. All the other LTLs have told no at least 4 times each in 4 months. No one wants to hire a 56 yr old dock worker if they do they want to pay me $17 for back breaking work. I may end up as a security guard my last 5 yrs work is easier but pays around $15 good thing I paid everything off knowing this could happen plus wife has a good job..Sad part is Drivers gave back -15% to help save them and got nothing in return , while Management stayed at full pay and they gave themselves Bonuses and Union Leaders that told us to take the -15% stayed at full pay , the only losers was the ones that gave back -15% .
OK Skid, I'm going to offer some advice even though you didn't ask for it. Did you ever get your GED? If not, do it! After that, there's a lot of decent community colleges in south Texas. Attend! You will be more educated, you will feel better and you will be proud. BTW, at 56 you are NOT too old. I've heard of people graduating college in their 90s.
As far as finding a job, that isn't going to help him. I've never, ever, had a job ask me for my diploma.
I disagree. Education rarely hurts anyone, and it frequently helps. One of the few instances where it hurt was my mother nearly 60 years ago. She had a Masters in Education, but the school district that was interested in hiring her couldn't pay the state scale for a teacher with a Masters, so no-go.
If you worked for YRC, those billions came from you and me, friend.
A G.E.D is the same as a high school diploma and will open more doors. That's what i have and it opened the door to a community college that taught truck driving. My state had a program that i signed up for and they paid it all. This is very good advice. They will help you on the G.E.D. I was not a smart kid in school. I knew the basics and was able to pass the G.E.D test.
Got my G.E.D. while in the Army
A small handful of upper management returned to full pay. The rest suffered as well. Just like the union didSad part is Drivers gave back -15% to help save them and got nothing in return , while Management stayed at full pay and they gave themselves Bonuses and Union Leaders that told us to take the -15% stayed at full pay , the only losers was the ones that gave back -15% .
In many cases supervisors got screwed worse than the Teamsters. At least we had a collective bargaining agreement to protect us a little. What senior management could not extract from us was taken from them.
