Have to cross this picket line

**Ranger_309** · 10.13.2010

Originally Posted by punkinhed

yeah, teamsters struck the cargill salt mine in cleveland in 2003. one of them threw a rock and broke a window out of a fedex truck.

Whats worse, you cross a picket line, you might not pay for it like a rock or cut air-lines, but you will be sitting out in the parking lot for HOURS while the union dockworkers ignore you, long AFTER the strike is over and done with.

Good reason not to cross a picket line for the driver and their company.

**ironeagle2006** · 10.13.2010

My policy was and will always be this. If your Dumb Enough to go on Strike and Get in my way if I have to make a Delivery to your place of Employment. Get out of MY WAY. Your Union is the reason your on Strike not the people that are trying to earn a living by keeping your Employeer in Business so when the Strike is settled YOU MIGHT HAVE A PLACE TO COME BACK TO WORK.

**wsyrob** · 10.13.2010

Originally Posted by Ranger_309

Whats worse, you cross a picket line, you might not pay for it like a rock or cut air-lines, but you will be sitting out in the parking lot for HOURS while the union dockworkers ignore you, long AFTER the strike is over and done with.

Good reason not to cross a picket line for the driver and their company.

That's fine with me. I will just get paid by the hour while I wait and my company will bill the company 5 times what they pay me. It's a little different in the bulk chemical world.

**Grouch** · 10.15.2010

Until the so called President Shows the Nation HIS TRUE Birth Cert NOT A CERT OF LIVE BIRTH I will not consider him My President.

I'm sure he is losing sleep over your position.

**kajidono** · 10.15.2010

Originally Posted by Grouch

I'm sure he is losing sleep over your position.

Not yet. Give it a couple weeks.

**Trade up** · 12.28.2010

I once went to a plant in Kentucky(accuride) that was on strike, for a delivery.
I had no clue there was a strike going or I would have declined the load,I don't need someone taking a two by four to my truck. Damage is damage regardless of the amount.

I told the guys out front that I had no idea there was a strike and that I would not be returing to the plant as long as there was one. The guys let me in and on the way out I gave them a honk and never returned. I did turn one load down that was offered to return to the plant.
I told my company "sorry,I don't want any issues that result in myself or my equipment getting damaged. It's just not worth it."

I would tell drivers that labour disputes can get very heated and getting in there on the wrong day could be disatrous. Just stay away,why put yourself into someone elses fight for no gain?

**Leftlane larry** · 05.16.2011

Unions are one of the main reasons that Illinois is bankrupt. State employees are mostly unionized and the state just gave them all the sweet perks the tax payer could pay.
Well I hope the teamsters just choke on there demand. Cross the picket line and get ack to the JOB....

**Rick Brown** · 07.23.2011

Originally Posted by walleye

Newsflash,......The members are the Union!!,....

I don't know why all of the anti-union crowd thinks a Union is some kind of mythical creature,....

It isn't really all that complicated,....

All officers are elected by the membership,..From the shop stewards to the business agents and all the way to the International President,...

If the membership is in anyway unhappy with the direction their local or the national is headed they can vote out the leadership if they so choose,...

voted and ok'ed "non strike" clauses in the contract?

**Rick Brown** · 07.23.2011

Originally Posted by walleye

I simply like having a solid contract with work rules and good wages and benefits,...

I don't have to worry about getting fired for no reason,...As long as I perform my job as directed by the company I will have employment, And I will be payed for every minute of my time spent at work, If the boss want's me to wait at a shipper or receiver for hours I will be payed my hourly wage,

Can you say that you are payed for all of your time spent working???

If your a typical steering wheel holder your answer is no,....

I have always been good enough that I did not have to pay someone to protect my job.

**Rick Brown** · 07.23.2011

Originally Posted by walleye

Maybe not, However if the rank and file quit fighting for fair wages and treatment we may all someday be right back to the days of the "company store",....

Since we are dealing in "if's", if a frog had wings he may not bump his ##### a hoppin either, but that is doubtful too.