CALLING CON-WAY FREIGHT DRIVERS: LLA {Con-Way Freight} Teamster Vote 9/12/14

I don't know about the Freight side, but Truckload's employee handbook has a hilariously delusional diatribe against unions making exaggerated and false claims.

 

It is a good thing for a few megas to go Union. It will raise wages for everyone.

 

Careful what you wish for. As having worked both union and non-union jobs driving and not, unionization is not the end all be all especially if the company-employee interactions are already contentious. What often tends to happen is that the union becomes only interested in collecting more dues and only working for the lazy who shouldn't keep their jobs anyway. But I won't go down the pro or anti union road any further here, this isn't the politics forum

 

You went down that road already and so will I.
Those non union carriers only paid as good as they did all those years because of Union presense.
Those same wages have become stagnant for far too long.
But you already knew that.

 

5 or 10 years ago it wasn't even a thought. I'm on the record as saying it would never happen and I was wrong. I can tell you one thing, top level management is so disconnected I don't think they saw this coming till a few weeks ago. I've worked here a long time and my opinion is they put too many straws on the camels back. I'm not a pro union voice but I certainly see why it happened and believe more terminals and regions will follow suit.

 

Wise words. Still, I'm happy to see this coming specially for the way Conway's corporate ways are. They deserve a union.

 

This means the union bosses can continue their lavish spending.
I'm a little familiar with trucking unions and one thing they seem to have in common is, the drivers turn on each other.

 

Just knowing a little can be a dangerous thing when expressing an opnion.

 

I do NOT know anything about trucking unions because I have never been in one. Why would the drivers turn on each other??

I have spent most of my life in NON-union companies. As a very young man, I was in a union shop as a part-time grocery clerk for 2 years. The last 38 years have all been NON-union companies.

 

You're right, but I speak from experience from suffering through how people change when they let a union tell them everyone is out to get them. Union was a bad fit for me because I didn't buy in to the paranoia and bailed. I won't hijack this Con-way thread, so I'll just stop here.