Well the fact is that most trucking companies are non-union and in the case of unionized consolidated freightways they don't go out of business they just change the name and operate without the unions.
Since a trucking company can be 1 truck it would make better sense to look at the decline of union membership rather then a company failure.
I am not against Union organization, I am against some of the socialist policies they advocate.
People should get a fair living wage for the work they perform. But should a for profit company have to shell out wages to their workers for years after they leave the work place? Nope. Should the rules in the workplace be so absurd that they restricted the company from running efficiently and upgrading? Nope.
Should people who spent years walking around with their chests puffed out calling everyone who was not union fools and scabs and then begged for a handout from non-union taxpayers get my sympathy? Nope.
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Discussion in 'YRC' started by alf, Jan 16, 2009.
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As I've said to several on here and I'll say to you, it is a pleasure to read well thought out posts. I am amazed at some of the others and the fact that they haven't a clue about what's happened to these companies and the industry as a whole. Thanks._ton bundle Thanks this. -
Thanks luvtheroad and bigblue19. Good posts and good points all around.luvtheroad Thanks this. -
bigblue19 and ton bundle... keep up the great posts, they are good to read and really makes a person think. It's is so refreshing to see posts that are well thought out and posted. Keep 'em coming.
BTW are the two of you LTL people or people who are interesting in the industry as a whole?_ton bundle Thanks this. -
Used to be. Now I'm just a freight geek with a love for the old school carriers.
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Not one insider has bought YRC shares lately, what does that tell us?
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I don't know how they do things at that Union but I do know how they do it at others. The pension amount is determined by the workers highest paid year so what the union does is make sure that a worker who is close to retirement gets as many hours and thus pay so that his pension amount will be bloated at the time of retirement. This is very common both on the federal and state and city level where everyone is going broke while taxes go up and services go down.
Where I live you have city workers making 150% of their base salary in OT while ones who are less senior are getting their hours or days cut so when the senior union workers retire they will get a higher pension. They tell the junior ones they are part of a brotherhood and have to sacrifice for the good of the collective. Pure Socialist ideology is at work in many of these outfits.
Like I said before. A Business should exist to provide a product or service for a fair profit. Not as a exercise in social welfare or to make sure their workers maintain a certain lifestyle through extortion even if the companies books don't warrant it, because if they don't, the Union will punish them with a strike.
I have worked in a union and have been to many union and non-union operations as a truck driver. Guess where I got treated the worst and had the most aggravation with delays and screw ups? The sense of entitlement is ingrained into many of these individuals and they see anyone who is not a member of the brotherhood as a outsider not worthy of any respect.
People complain about high paid CEO's with companies in debt but don't bat a eyelash at a union player for the Lions making millions while they went o for, for the season.
These Union trucking companies should just replace the work force and get ride of the legacy payments. Plenty of people out there who would produce for a good wage rather then think it was owed to them for just showing up. -
You've made valid points and I agree with you but it's just not going to happen. At least I won't see it in my lifetime.
My husband was a Teamster for many, many years. He got hurt on the job and never was able to work again. So, he had to take early retirement. He had a year to go. After paying dues for all of those years, he got $615 a month and no benefits. Had he been able to work just one more year he would have gotten benefits and almost $2000 a month. Not a lot of justice there, I don't think. But I guess $615 is better than nothing. LOL
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