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canaryinthemine

canaryinthemine

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Just to inform my Brothers here,.....Article 53, section 9, A of the Joint Council # 40 Supplement says: "The Union shall have the right to file a grievance against an Employer who consistently insists that employees work ten (10) hours a day. This shall apply to city drivers returning to terminal after completing their tour of duty, as well as other classifications."........ In my opinion, I see a lot of crocodile tears shed because ABF apparently can't find drivers,........ and I'm starting to feel like an enabler by working more than 10 hours,.....at the expense of my family, I might add. ABF had no problem hiring 5 years ago,....What has changed? Every non-Union carrier out there pays more than ABF,......and upper management thinks if they ignore the economic issues, them they don't have to deal with them.......And,.....by the way,..,.anybody see the Teamsters?...... or has the Marble Palace sunk into the earth under the weight of it's muddy, stinking iniquities?
 
I get the feeling that they are confident that they will make it through this by just staying on course and I don't see any evidence that they are sincerely trying to make the job any more enticing to new hires. I have felt for a long time that there will one day be a company that goes out of business because they just can't find drivers. Will that company be ABF?
 
I used to think the driver shortage would level the playing field between us and the non union carriers. But now I think it will kill us if the "smart" people don't wake up. I hope they are asleep and this has not been the plan all along. I have to believe the company wants to continue to operate.
 
If you notice,....they have changed some of the provisions of Art. 32,...Subcontracting,....to make it easier to subcontract freight out to non-union carriers. That must be the corporate answer to the driver shortage. Of course,....short-term solutions usually have long-term repercussions,......but hey!.......who in our current management group cares about long-term anyway?......I can almost hear the ripcords on those Golden Parachutes going off within the next couple of years,......then the driver shortage, vacation problems, rising health care costs and damage claims,.....will be Someone Else's Problem.........That's the real Corporate Solution.
 
Corporate America has been training itself for shortsightedness for many decades now. On an individual level Its all about getting up the ladder at all costs. And on a corporate level nothing matters except more money. Doesn't matter if they made all the dollars, had all the market share last year they have to make more this year.
 
canaryinthemine said:
If you notice,....they have changed some of the provisions of Art. 32,...Subcontracting,....to make it easier to subcontract freight out to non-union carriers. That must be the corporate answer to the driver shortage.
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That might be why I saw a Werner sleeper in Ohio on Friday afternoon pulling a set of ABF pups. Blew my mind...
 
canaryinthemine said:
Just to inform my Brothers here,.....Article 53, section 9, A of the Joint Council # 40 Supplement says: "The Union shall have the right to file a grievance against an Employer who consistently insists that employees work ten (10) hours a day. This shall apply to city drivers returning to terminal after completing their tour of duty, as well as other classifications."........ In my opinion, I see a lot of crocodile tears shed because ABF apparently can't find drivers,........ and I'm starting to feel like an enabler by working more than 10 hours,.....at the expense of my family, I might add. ABF had no problem hiring 5 years ago,....What has changed? Every non-Union carrier out there pays more than ABF,......and upper management thinks if they ignore the economic issues, them they don't have to deal with them.......And,.....by the way,..,.anybody see the Teamsters?...... or has the Marble Palace sunk into the earth under the weight of it's muddy, stinking iniquities?
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We don't have a Supplement out here (Joint Council 37), but we do have the 'Excessive Overtime' clause. We have a sheet posted by the time clock. I sign it everyday...regardless of my start time.
 
They will let a new hire take vacation at 75% into the second year. So you don't have to wait two full years now, you can take it early.
 
norcal10 said:
They will let a new hire take vacation at 75% into the second year. So you don't have to wait two full years now, you can take it early.
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So, new hires can take a week at 18 mths, instead of waiting 24 months ? Did I miss the memo on this ? What region are you running out of that is allowing this ?
 
norcal10 said:
I am out in the western region. Was told this was some kind of new policy or something. I am a new hire. Been here just over a year. The ba was there and he didn't object.
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I'm liking this, let's make it nationwide for all employees. If you get anything to verify this please do share it with us.
 
Boilerpeddle said:
I used to think the driver shortage would level the playing field between us and the non union carriers. But now I think it will kill us if the "smart" people don't wake up. I hope they are asleep and this has not been the plan all along. I have to believe the company wants to continue to operate.
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canaryinthemine said:
If you notice,....they have changed some of the provisions of Art. 32,...Subcontracting,....to make it easier to subcontract freight out to non-union carriers. That must be the corporate answer to the driver shortage. Of course,....short-term solutions usually have long-term repercussions,......but hey!.......who in our current management group cares about long-term anyway?......I can almost hear the ripcords on those Golden Parachutes going off within the next couple of years,......then the driver shortage, vacation problems, rising health care costs and damage claims,.....will be Someone Else's Problem.........That's the real Corporate Solution.
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They say driver shortage,but it is just an excuse to use sub contractors who you can bet pay their drivers a lot less in wages and benefits. If any of the major LTL carriers would advertise new drivers with experience and a clean record start at full scale and benefits from day 1, they would have all the people they want. The 3 years to get to full scale is nothing but $$$ in their pockets. It is all about the money.
 
coondogg said:
That might be why I saw a Werner sleeper in Ohio on Friday afternoon pulling a set of ABF pups. Blew my mind...
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Why so shocked?. Guess you didn't read the whole contract. Only the part that pertains to your situation. I guess. City men don't care about the road and road doesn't care about the city equals judy wins.
 
It is a fact that people gave the our jobs away with the last contract. First it was the pse driver taming freight from the road . That wasn't good enough so we now have the utility employee and that still isn't good enouvh. So now we have hundreds of loads being picked up at customers and delivered in other parts of the country without ever being touched by an abf employee. Wake up. It's over johnny
 
I'm in the Midwest and I heard about the new hire vacation change also... No longer 2 years for 1 week... Still not going to set the world on fire with that...
 
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