When will frieght pick up

Yeh you're right let's give up our health insurance and raises so we can keep our jobs.
Get rid of the union corporate will take care of us.

 

Slow down brother.....
I was in the Teamsters for 20 years and my dad and uncles were in the Operators before me. It's a different world, I can remember when Union benefits paid 100% of medical, dental and optical. I also remember when they started to cut benefits down in the 80's to cut costs for both them and the signatory companies.

Benefits are not cheap anymore...it has become a two-way street.
It's one's responsibility to take care of one's self. So no more downing a 12 pack at the end of the day; no more pigging-out on high fat diets; exercise instead of staring at the b**b tube all day on the weekends.

The wages were cut because in some cases they have become outrageously high as in UAW wages, and we have seen the results of those wages on the automakers and the consumers.

It's interesting that those who protest the most, do not pay for their own health/dental/optical insurance outright (I do), and are the least likely to adapt to changes in the (I did, I went into business for myself) work/business environments.

 

UAW problems are self inflicted,Unions can't make them do anything.

 

Unions have become who they were "Fighting" though.
Tell me that unions like the Teamsters are not making a profit off of their "Rank and File" via dues and supplemental dues; "pay-offs" and "donations".

 

You mean to tell me corporations will take payoffs or donations?

 

You have misinterpreted my original (unions benefit from "gifts" derived from companies, government, ect...) comment however,
It's a "two-way" street....
I have seen more than one new construction company funded by unions in order to enlarge a local's membership in my time.

 

Yep I'm getting my feet wet, its definitely better than my current job.. Just keep your current job, goto CDL school part time

 

Oh sorry,in that case if the union can be bought shouldn't companies come out on top?

 

I have been around long enough to have seen union officials get bought and paid by some unscrupulous companies and I have seen union officials start companies and install proxies to run them and expand membership.

I suppose you believe that the union leaders are all saints?

I used to watch my step-dad run B.A.'s out of his office and the next day I would have B.A.'s stir sh*# up on my jobs.
I have also had superintendents try to get me to drive trucks out of the yard (and change my shirt so that the B.A.'s wouldn't recognize me) so their labors could take the trucks to job sites because there "wasn't enough money in the jobs to pay teamster wages".

It is a "two-way street", both sides are dirty. But I just don't get it...why do people believe the companies are always bad and the unions are always good?