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Shortboxlife said:
Well, it’s here. The tentative agreement
https://teamster.org/sites/default/files/reddaway_highlights_flier.pdf
Highlights
https://teamster.org/sites/default/files/reddaway_highlights_flier.pdf
Teamster.org press release
https://teamster.org/news/2019/08/u...orse-tentative-usf-reddaway-freight-agreement

What are the thoughts on this? I’d like to see the new wage scale. A little peeved at only a 2 year agreement. Perhaps we are taking baby steps in the right direction?
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Brothers and sisters this tentative agreement will pass with no problem. It's designed to make the merging process flawlessly. It's a mirror to the YRC, Holland and New Penn contract.
Wait for another announcement soon after officially ratify...
Stay tuned...:couch:
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GIALLO said:
Brothers and sisters this tentative agreement will pass with no problem. It's designed to make the merging process flawlessly. It's a mirror to the YRC, Holland and New Penn contract.
Wait for another announcement soon after officially ratify...
Stay tuned...:couch:
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With the name recognition that each of the individual companies possess under the YRCW umbrella, it would be asinine to merge the companies together. Some customers simply won’t ship with certain companies under the YRCW umbrella but are perfectly content with one of the sister companies. The USF branding was no longer a relevant name in the industry and each company under the USF moniker at that point simply became their latter name only i.e. Bestway, Distribution, Dugan, Glen Moore, Holland and Reddaway. Roughly 12 years ago we were no longer USF and yet we still have it on some of the trailers. The cost of doing a name change throughout the whole of the company on the equipment alone would be staggering. Even this tentative agreement shows USF at the top.

Not to forget that as the economy is slowing down, people don’t want to try something new, they want to stick with what they know. The utilization of HNRY allows all the sister companies to work seamlessly from start to finish with the customers shipments.

Finally, all the companies contract expired and started at the same time, the 1st of April. So to streamline us into one company, they’d have to give us what the NMFA gave to Holland, New Penn and YRC. They didn’t do that. We’re still going to make less than our sister companies. I don’t buy this merger whisperings as anything more then an old wives tale. The company would give up at least a 100 years worth of name recognition and start as the new guy in the industry. I just don’t buy it. Up until this last year, YRC was operating at a 105-116. The regionals are the only thing that kept yrcw from folding. To give that up would be silly.

Best wishes.
 
Name recognition doesn't mean a thing. When Yellow bought Roadway, the idea was that the customers wouldn't be the wiser. They were, and each company lost business. The same thing was happened when YRC bought USF, they lost business. Customers aren't stupid. They have the same access to information that we have. To think that merging is not possible is naive. The only, ONLY, way YRCW will prevail is to merge operations. They can't keep operations separate and and continue to operate at the present O/R. The reason given in the Teamsters article concerning the length of the agreement is telling. I've never heard of an agreement " to see what will happen with wages" in 2 years. Or a trial to see what needs to be changed. Don't kid yourself, the agreement is for 24 months because in 24 months huge changes are going to happen.

My opinion is, and always has been, that YRC cannot service overnight and 2 day lanes. They cannot ever, with the current work rules. The idea that they should be the default option is wrong. The regionals showed that they can do both. That, IMO, was the reason Zollars bought USF. USF was poised to bury them. USF could then, and can still now compete in any and all lanes. YRC cannot. To say that this is impossible, look at ANY competitor, they do it all day every day, at an acceptable O/R.
 
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With the name recognition that each of the individual companies possess under the YRCW umbrella, it would be asinine to merge the companies together. Some customers simply won’t ship with certain companies under the YRCW umbrella but are perfectly content with one of the sister companies. The USF branding was no longer a relevant name in the industry and each company under the USF moniker at that point simply became their latter name only i.e. Bestway, Distribution, Dugan, Glen Moore, Holland and Reddaway. Roughly 12 years ago we were no longer USF and yet we still have it on some of the trailers. The cost of doing a name change throughout the whole of the company on the equipment alone would be staggering. Even this tentative agreement shows USF at the top.

Not to forget that as the economy is slowing down, people don’t want to try something new, they want to stick with what they know. The utilization of HNRY allows all the sister companies to work seamlessly from start to finish with the customers shipments.

Finally, all the companies contract expired and started at the same time, the 1st of April. So to streamline us into one company, they’d have to give us what the NMFA gave to Holland, New Penn and YRC. They didn’t do that. We’re still going to make less than our sister companies. I don’t buy this merger whisperings as anything more then an old wives tale. The company would give up at least a 100 years worth of name recognition and start as the new guy in the industry. I just don’t buy it. Up until this last year, YRC was operating at a 105-116. The regionals are the only thing that kept yrcw from folding. To give that up would be silly.

Best wishes.
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Good Lord Really? At what point over the past 12 years have you seen any indication that YRC Gives a Rats Rectum about the USF brand recognition. How many Examples need to be hammered into your skull for you to see that The Regional Units are going to be merged into YRCF ? This contract is a transitional agreement. The Length and contents prove it. so get used to the idea and either find a better carrier or embrace the reality that if you are retained through the merger you will be a YRCF employee.
 
The Non union Terminals are the ones in serious trouble. You can either Organize into the Teamsters union and protect your seniority before merger or you can Endtail or worse YRCF could require you to RE hire and start as a probationary employee after the merger. So unless you want to Loose your seniority you really only have 1 reasonable choice. if you are the typical Non union Reddaway employee then your answer will be F-the union. in that case you had better plan your exit now and go to a much healthier company like FDXF or ODFL.
 
FRTCHUCKER said:
The Non union Terminals are the ones in serious trouble. You can either Organize into the Teamsters union and protect your seniority before merger or you can Endtail or worse YRCF could require you to RE hire and start as a probationary employee after the merger. So unless you want to Loose your seniority you really only have 1 reasonable choice. if you are the typical Non union Reddaway employee then your answer will be F-the union. in that case you had better plan your exit now and go to a much healthier company like FDXF or ODFL.
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Good God man stop being stupid and learn your labor laws .everthing dont revole around being union. Also u haven't been with reddaway long enough to no that wont happen and if it did the layers and going to be calling
 
Thehoff said:
Good God man stop being stupid and learn your labor laws .everthing dont revole around being union. Also u haven't been with reddaway long enough to no that wont happen and if it did the layers and going to be calling
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OK MR Labor Law Expert! Tell me what happens when YRC Merges a NON bargaining unit into the National Master Freight Agreement? You have your head in the sand. This is not a case of a white paper contract unit merging with a non union company like Motor cargo and Overnight to form a new company (UPSF) This is a White paper contract unit with 30% or more non union employees merging with a existing NMFA company. But you go ahead and roll the dice.
 
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