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trucker0728
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can anyone give us the status on xco trying to go union
we had another meeting with the teamsters today. We are working on getting enough signatures for a vote. We talked that we need to get other terminals involved so they will not be able to route freight around us. We are still 100% committed to making this happen.
OK, given the benefit of doubt. Has any one ask this union rep or did some research of how Con-Ways operation would change? It's not so much of having freight routed around XCO, but the operation as a whole. As afar as I know YRC drivers don't work the dock. You throw some clothes in a bag and leave when they tell you to. You get back home when they tell you too. I knew a retired Yellow driver. before he died he would tell me that he would be out for 3-4 days running around doing terminal transfers. Be careful what you ask for.
Unions protect the lazy. It is that simple.
I too have had experience with teamsters, carpenters, stagehands and electricians. Every one had the same mentality, "That's not my job."
They were more concerned with break time than getting something done.
I've actually seen a union guy carrying something, hear his foreman yell, "LUNCH!", and the guy dropped the item he was carrying on the spot. Couldn't even walk the 20 feet further to put the item where it went, THEN go to lunch.
I'll never forget, I saw a guy wearing a union T-Shirt for some IBEW local about 8 years ago; on the back it read, "Shorter Hours, Higher Pay."
He might as well have had a shirt that said, "I'm lazy."
OK, given the benefit of doubt. Has any one ask this union rep or did some research of how Con-Ways operation would change? It's not so much of having freight routed around XCI, but the operation as a whole. As afar as I know RC drivers don't work the dock. You throw some clothes in a bag and leave when they tell you to. You get back home when they tell you too. I knew a retired Yellow driver. before he died he would tell me that he would be out for 3-4 days running around doing terminal transfers. Be careful what you ask for.
Unions protect the lazy. It is that simple.
I too have had experience with teamsters, carpenters, stagehands and electricians. Every one had the same mentality, "That's not my job."
They were more concerned with break time than getting something done.
I've actually seen a union guy carrying something, hear his foreman yell, "LUNCH!", and the guy dropped the item he was carrying on the spot. Couldn't even walk the 20 feet further to put the item where it went, THEN go to lunch.
I'll never forget, I saw a guy wearing a union T-Shirt for some IBEW local about 8 years ago; on the back it read, "Shorter Hours, Higher Pay."
He might as well have had a shirt that said, "I'm lazy."
Unions protect the lazy. It is that simple.
I too have had experience with teamsters, carpenters, stagehands and electricians. Every one had the same mentality, "That's not my job."
They were more concerned with break time than getting something done.
I've actually seen a union guy carrying something, hear his foreman yell, "LUNCH!", and the guy dropped the item he was carrying on the spot. Couldn't even walk the 20 feet further to put the item where it went, THEN go to lunch.
I'll never forget, I saw a guy wearing a union T-Shirt for some IBEW local about 8 years ago; on the back it read, "Shorter Hours, Higher Pay."
He might as well have had a shirt that said, "I'm lazy."
LOL.. Bring them up here son.. I'm a native New Yorker which should make me pro-union but I grew up watching them in NYC pool halls and am not impressed dude. It's a bunch of loosres getting a cut from your check.. Please send them to my townhouse - especially their muscle or lack thereof..lol.. You guys are something else man.. Old ass so called men wanting someone else to help them out..lol.. Please please please come tune me up.. I've had it and I'll go with my fists or the MP40..