Keep in mind how much money can be saved by YRCW if:
Possibility # 1. Major "work rule changes" are allowed to take place. Company limits are removed. (34 hour restart rule, road drivers dropping & hooking themselves, road drivers doing unlimited drops between terminals and so on. You name the rule and it may be changed to save the company money.)
Possibility # 2. Maximum weeks of Vacation, "Vacation Limits".
Possibility # 3. Reduced or elimination of "Sick Days".
When you're taking it from so many people it adds up very fast.
This is just to give you an ideal of "other ways" for YRCW to get the money they want.
If you want the company to become profitable-Why not get some work rule changes? Road drivers dropping and hooking themselves? Why not? Let them work instead of being paid to sit in the breakroom waiting for someone to do it for them. Look at the other LTL's, they are making it work! We atre losing more and more market share to them because they can do it for less.
I think we can change some of the rules and keep the wages wherte they are at if not bring them back to where the should be by the end of the contract.
What is(were) YRCW paying for pension- $160 a week? Whose making the money on that? Sure as hell not us ! We have pension cuts coming because IBT(us) let them out of paying the pensions for 18 months. Why don't we have 401K's paying into an account weekly of $100 that is in our name that we can take with us anywhere we go? That saves $60 X 20K+ union employees. That's a chunk of change right there !!!
Aren't we limited on vacation time already by contract terms?
Reduce or eliminate sick days? - I don't see either of those happening.
The company needs to give up just like they ask us to. We all know that the game we play with management trying to get free money because they didn't do something by the contract terms, and yet they turn around and write us up for every stupid item.
After all is said and done- IF WE DON'T CHANGE-THE COMPANY WON'T BE HERE. I am suprised it still is. I've been laid off 16 months and I don't like working my non union gig !!!