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[quote author=wishy-washy link=topic=80104.msg831391#msg831391 date=1274358355]
Adjusting the work rules!!!
Your going to open up a whole new can of worms with that statement
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I'm not trying to. I'm trying to do my part to help foster the TEAM attitude needed to make the company competitive and bring back our Brothers.
Lets see.... If 25 years ago, the roads were so bad your grandpa local negotiated a 50 mph run time average, you think it should stay at that? As a product of the fatigue generated by the transmissions in those old trucks, work rules required a mandatory 30 or 60 minute breaks in addition to the run times.
That is the ideology that led to the great loss of jobs at 218. It was zealously enforced.
Outdated rules and enforced inefficiency are reasons YRC is having money problems as much as the actions of upper management. A dollar thrown away is a dollar. It does not matter who chose to throw it away.
Better rules would not mandate inefficiency, they would allow room for inefficiency as a workers right. (IE 1 hour lunch or extended run time is okay but not mandatory)
You don't have the right as a low level employee to complain about the inefficiency of upper management, when you also take efficiencies that could currently exist, intentionally make them inefficient, then promote the losses under threat of punishment. What you view as minimal when done once, when done tens of thousands of times can be JUST AS EXPENSIVE.
All I'm saying is we should ask ourselves if there are outdated or inefficient rules that would make the system work better and make us happier also. If we find those, we should work on changing them.
[/quote]They moved the jobs to 211, because YRC doesn't want Teamsters. They want the other kind of workforce, that break rules, and doesn't respect or follow a union contract.
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From talking to some 211 drivers, they like the flexibility aspects better. They can be sitting at home relaxing if they choose to roll, while a 218 driver would still be on the same run.
Nuff Said on that logic!!! :thumbsup: