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I know exactly why Yellow hired me first, networking. Do you really think company HR people and union reps argue and fight all the time? When the hearings and negotiating sessions are over, the only think we argued about was who picked up the dinner and drink check. We all stayed at the same hotels, played golf and worked together. Why do you think conventions, regional hearings and seminars are held in resort towns? My guess is that not much has changed in the last 25 years.
Lets start with the Union thing. You bragged about all the official Union titles you once held. Then you bragged about getting hired at Yellow ahead of several others when Preston shut their doors. You don’t really think they hired you first because of your “strong” Union background do you? They hired you first because they knew you would be a “good boy” and not get involved with Union issues. How many good Union people did you turn your back on during your 5 years at Yellow that you could have helped when it came to Union issues. You were a Union Official. It was your job to help out your Union brothers that might have needed your knowledge and experience when it came to Union issues. But instead, you kissed the bosses azzes at Yellow to get a job and turned your back on your brothers just so you could draw a full, 30 year pension from the very organization that provided you a contractual agreement so that you could get that 30 year and out pension. And now you preach that Unions are out-dated and need to change to suit the employers wishes all the while drawing a 30 year pension provided you by the contracts negotiated by the Teamsters. I would say that pretty much labels you “anti-union”. It also labels you a hypocrite as you are drawing a pension from the negotiating efforts of the very organization that you say needs to change to suit the employers needs.
Unions are not "outdated", it's the us against them mentality that should have died with deregulation.
At Yellow in Ohio, I was not a union official in any capacity. I knew nothing about Central States and, as I said, was only there to get the last 5 years I needed. The Yellow culture was disgusting to me.