Schneider Wage Freeze

After turning down governor's from 63 to 60 and not putting them back up when fuel prices were cut in half, after outsourcing payroll, after repealing wage increases, after closing down the Schneider school that has been open for decades and only hiring drivers with 6 months or more of experience, Schneider National has decided to put a wage freeze on all associates, supposedly including everyone up to the top. Anyone due for a raise will not receive one.

Also starting March 1st new new hires will be paid less than current new hires. Layover and breakdown pay will decrease from 80-100$ to 65$. Also the company will only pay into 401k plans at the end of the year instead of every pay period.

The standard is being lowered and lowered. No one wants to buy anything because they don't know when their next pay cut is. And you know the next thing they're going to go after is vacation pay. Now if people are too scared to buy anything, that means Schneider will be doing less business hauling freight. If Schneider pay us less, we will have even less to turn around and put money into the economy. The cycle feeds on itself. Barack Obama's fear regime is scaring people into accepting any job they can possibly get for whatever wage and teaching them to be thankful while the rich continue to get richer. We're setting the bar to a new low every month and the only way to stop it is to instill confidence that we don't have to be afraid.

What these execs don't get is every penny they cut out of our pay is just another penny less they would make on hauling freight.

 

Gee, I dunno. Selective socialism for banks and the auto industry and home owners and reckless states when they make a string of stupid and/or greedy decisions and mess everything up seems to working pretty well for the US right now.

What would it be like if our employers disappeared? Let me see. Maybe we would ban together starting in the bread lines and form riots and start chopping off Wall Street heads and leave a clear resounding message. That instead of laying down and being ####### and graciously accepting any pay at all we can get, we would teach these people a lesson that we're not to be ###### with. That the same justice standard that we so readily apply to the working man also applies to the guys at the top. Maybe we should stop paying taxes and thereby refuse to pay for dinner parties and private jets of corporate heads who ruined this country. The thing you people don't get is they have done more damage to the US than 9/11. They've done worse than Al-Quaeda ever dreamed of. And you're paying them off gladly.