Originally published at: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/yellows-137m-plus-lawsuit-against-teamsters-revived
Yellow Corp.’s breach-of-contract lawsuit against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has been reinstated by a federal appeals court.
If Yellow has so much money to go after the Teamters then let’s check the CEO and the top people there to see how much of a golden parachute they got
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Sean O’Brien needs to be voted out. He is a disgrace to all working women and men. He sold out The Teamsters for backing Trump, hopefully some members will the have balls to stand up to this clown.
Most don’t understand that when you have a contract that’s what you go by. A change of operations does not change the language in a contract. You don’t vote on changes of operation. So everybody wants to bad mouth. Sean O’Brien. He did the right thing. Lot of the lower seniority guys would probably be out of a job anyway.
I support what O’Brien in his decision. He stood his ground. This company ran ruckshaw over all the union employees for how many years. Finally somebody stood up to them Yellow. Jimmy Hoffa was a lap dog for the company. What you might want to do is question. How did all the people give back $25,000 a year in wages and pension contributions for all the years that added up to $6 billion? You might want to question, how do you still have debt,Because you only had $2 billion of debt. Now you collected $6 billion off the employees so how is it that you’re still in debt?
Sean O’Brien said it right. There’s no more to give. Only thing you have left is your seniority and they wanted to take that away from you. They wanted to reclassify road drivers so that they could pay less wages.This was nothing but a pay cut. Road drivers do not get time and a half over 8 hours like cartage guys. So we would have classified you as a dock worker paying your road driver wages.
Those who disagree then you should be happy working at a non-union job where you have no say and the company does whatever they want. That’s where you belong.
They joined our company’s together without any type of plan on how to make this so-called One Yellow work. They tried to combine four terminals with an average of each one about 36 to 50 dock doors into one terminal with only 62 doors. We couldn’t keep up with the freight. Right away we were thousands of pieces of freight behind and we worked 6 days plus overtime and we could still barely catch up. Half the time our managers had no idea what we were doing because they themselves had no idea what cooperate was doing. Now they want to blame the Union for them not knowing what they were doing. Union people don’t make company decisions. We don’t tell the company how to run it operation. If anything, the company breached the contract because there lack of a plan put the Union in a position where we did our jobs and they still managed to run this company into the ground. The Union didn’t take 700 million dollars from the government and use that money for cooperate bonuses, steal the union members pension money, close the doors without one word to any Union member.