Puff Driver
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I would be surprised if everyone was made whole.
Sure would be nice but there must be a road to this in new contract.
Face the facts people this Clown Circus does not need more than 1 barn where they have 3 doing it now in places.
Other than not enough room would be the only thing keeping more than 1 barn open in a given area.
This is what Yellow is very good at doing. Shrink To Fit they have done this with every COO or purchase that I have had the pleasure to have a ring side seat.
Preston purchase .. Another screwing for those employee
Saia ,Smalley West EX.. Saia spun off to be run by Dollar Bills family ?
Single man relay to Sleeper teams.
COO 83 in the West
RDWY listened to Dollar Bill tell us all we will never merge these to brands... Their worth to much...
USF ...
Close Red star... Another screwing...
Closing of EOL terminals and moving everything back to Break Bulk
Within 6 months the volume had dropped back down as if those city terminals were never there.
Many of the Teamsters moved on to ABF or retired rather than drive 100 miles to work.
Reddaway a train wreck that rivals Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey great movie .
Why they waited so long to do this change ? All the money they could steal was gone. Nothing left to steal.
They also had a workforce that was largely Non- union and it was not for the lack of trying by Western locals.
The only reason many signed cards was the writing on the wall about endtailing.
Many left and many are looking to leave still.
East of the Rockies this just ain't going to fly ...
I believe the Teamsters and the Circus will come to some sort of agreement.
I look for a lot of jobs to move elsewhere or disappear. HOPE I am wrong..
If this is Yellow then why Holland and New Penn work rules ?
Never have seen a copy of Reddaways yet ... because their are NONE..
If I were working at this circus i would be getting my CDL ASAP
Without a CDL your just one flush away from being out of work..
Who ever said dock workers are unskilled labor is unskilled in speaking.
What ya think kiddies ?
The solution is already written, both Yellow and the teamsters need to look at well run profitable companies such as ODFL or Fed Ex Freight and duplicate their operations.
Both are financially solid healthy companies that are respected and command rates that create profits that create futures for workers..
Then workers do not sit on a website fighting over their futures.....