What you didn't say is what your doing for it?
Are you in the city working 40 or less?
Are you on the road and if so how long of a run, are you home daily, how many hrs a week are you logging?
Make no mistake, unless your an idiot everyone at all of these co's knows what the other makes and who pays more. But as far as pay goes we are not that far apart, now start talking benefits and yes I'm jealous, I would love to have a pension that will pay 2-3k a month out, it would be great to have co paid health.
But, and there is a but, I don't want to go to the bottom again, I don't want to get laid off every year. I prefer to be 14 miles from the yard instead of 40 and wonder if my vehicle is going to be there when I return and if so if it will be broke into or have to drive a beater so I don't worry about it, kinda defeats the purpose of making more.
I am where I am by choice, we all choose wether to stay or go. Or wether to organize or not. These are decisions made based on many things.
I know I make what I do because the Union keeps the pressure on, I don't want the Union to go down as Puff or others here have said, they will say that the pay scale is driven by driver shortages but if that were true why is it that the Union carriers are always the highest pay?
I have seen the reference by some that if you work at a Non and admit that the Union is what drives the pay then you are a free rider, in reality that is false, I end up paying much more than dues in added costs of healthcare so it is no free ride. Yes I know that they were referring to the fact they stand the line each contract time and take the risk to secure a contract that the rest just try and imitate closely, not exactly just close enough.
But, there is no support of a Union at FXF, if you start pushing for it you might just as well go to Yellow or USF ABF besause you will be out the door soon enough, you know it, I know it, we all know it. Even with a Union if you step on the wrong toes and they want you gone bad enough they will get you, eventually.
Sorry for the long rant but it kinda chaps my butt when we get into the pissing contest and someone talks down to someone else. We are all doing the same job and probably for the same reason, taking care of our families while weighing what works best for us.
Take care
FM