How did they kick them in the back
Maybe you can help my CRS memory. Back then during the period of double digit inflation the Teamsters were negotiating our NMFA contract. Carter had said that if we were to agree to hold at only 7% then he wouldn't deregulate. We held up our end but he deregulated anyway. Did I dream that or did Carter go along with Ted Kennedy and stab us in the back?
Yet the Union keeps telling us to vote Democrat when they deregulated us away
I have spoken with my republican congressman Tom Rice and he told me point blank that they weren't in the business of bailing out private pension funds. But since the house already passed a pension bill a call to your senators would be the right move. I called my republican senators Graham and Scott 2 months ago but have yet to get a reply........................Maybe the republican McConnell has a soft spot for the miners in Kentucky
I'll help you Roady, I'm sending you this Christmas PresentWhat happened to all of those Democrats who claimed they were going to help us? Why didn't they add an Amendment to the 2020 Appropriations Bill to help multiemployee plans? Same old garbage all talk no action?
When I was a switcher in the yard I hooked many of those babies up. But when I went on the street to peddle I had a Ford cab over. Miss that job, one of the best I had, learned how to be a real Teamster there.
Had a lot of friends drove for Lazy J, when they folded, I helped several get on at PIE.
When Lazy J folded I got on at Ryder truck Lines/ Ryder/PIE/ PIE Nationwide for the next 10 years. Again got lucky great jobs up in New Jersey.
Those were the good old days. When my first job in local 478 closed in 77 I went to Red Star in local 560. I made the list in 8 days. But when things were slow the steward always found us work at other 560 jobs. I had 7 W-2s that first year. Those were the good old days of union LTL.
I was lucky. Worked Johnson Motor Lines 10 years until they folded, got on with Ryder the next day and worked there for 10 years then left when I saw the writing on the wall. When they took over Transcon it was time to go. Then the next day I started at Roadway for the next 20 years, retired when all of the give back bull started. Crystal you are right they were the good old days.
I agree with you about the Grassley plan, but I don't understand why the Dems didn't include the Butch Lewis Act into the 2020 Appropriations Bill. If Trump wins reelection and the Reps. take the House and Senate we are dead in the water. I feel that if they included it in this bill their might have been a chance for both parties to negotiate something before this next election.
