Carhaul Local Union Leaders to Review Agreement on

[tmorr37]

Ballots Scheduled to Be Mailed to Members July 10

Carhaul Local Union Leaders to Review Tentative Agreement on July 2

Leaders from local unions that represent carhaul members will meet July 2 in Detroit to review the tentative national agreement that was reached June 19
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[davecampbell]

I don't see too many positive comments on thecarhauler. On the union's official site they make it sound great. Can this contract be ratified by the drivers without the Article 48 or are the negotiators going to go back to work?

[tmorr37]

Sorry I missed your Reply Dave
We now know the Outcome. It went down in Flames. The sediments on the Carhauler were accurate.
I can't see why this new offer won't be accepted. looks good enough to me.

[davecampbell]

I think you are right. I expect this one to pass. Its not great but given the economic times we are in it will have to do for now. Maybe next time the contract comes up the situation will be better.

[carhauler1]

Im glad to see union will pass contract I hope someone in the union carhaul division will be a leader and start organizing the non-union carriers! The only way to survive will to add more members.United road is ripe for organizing,they keep buying more trucks and forcing drivers to accept pay cuts.most new hires are ex-union drivers and that should help with recruiting them and the others who never belong to a union.The leadership needs to wake up and realize that the time is right to start orginizing and stop the name calling!Carhaul is at a crossroad now its time to swim or sink!

[sintrans]

Maybe the union will do for the other carriers what it did for Leasway

[nstewartg]

I want you to tell me what the union did to Leaseway Motorcar. I also want you to tell me what the management of Leaseway did to that company. I was a union member working for Leaseway Motorcar and I don't remember that company ever open their books and show how they were running the company into the ground by steeling the profit out from leaseway. Those thieving men and women wouldn't even show what they were getting paid per unit. They ask us to work seven days per week, or flex work week so they didn't have to pay time and a half or double time, they wanted us to take multiple pay cut while they were steeling the money out from the company. Unions don't put company out of business, the company management get the company into trouble then they wanted the union enough to bail them out, so they blame the union when the workers said they have enough.

[carhauler1]

Mr.stewart again I ask you how many times have you had damages and did you tell the whole truth so help you god or how many times did your stewart tell management that they could not load certain trucks or tell drivers they work to much and made others look bad and how many times did you have a break down but waited till after dispatch so you could be on the clock??? How many times have trucks been loaded on friday and and sat till monday and work rules that are not profitable for the company and are old and need to be changed union companies are slowly going out of business and why????They provide good work enviroment and safe equipment and most of all do not cheat drivers.These companies like accurate and URS and others need to be unionize and build up the pensions and cover people like yourself as things are you may lose your pension and the government will take over good luck then!!!

[9axle]

To be fair, blaming all of the failures of PTS on the Union isn't a fair representation of the situation. PTS, like so many other companies of late, was heavily in debt due to financing mergers. Allied was in the same boat, and the Union agreed to concessions with certain provisions, including the promise that some of the money saved would be spent on new equipment.

The wage cuts were supposed to temporary, but right now, I think I make more a mile than Allied. The promised new equipment turned out to be old Blue Thunder trucks, though they did do a nice job on the refurbs. They did skimp by not rebuilding the engines though. Seeing as though both companies were owned by the same parent, and Allied had broken many promises, its hard to fault the PTS drivers for standing up to management. They had a pretty poor track record.

I think an issue endemic to this whole merger craze is a failure of the purchasers to account for certain expenses. They bought these two companies with out realizing, or were unwilling to inject the cash needed to repair years of poor management. They should have invested in new equipment, new technology and new management. They demanding an immediate turn-around without making the investment needed to insure long-term success.

The fact that the company wasn't going to get the money it needed, and that its sister was in the same boat(bankruptcy) coupled with the dishonesty of the senior management may have led some drivers to agree to a strike knowing that it might end the company. I remember that was a thought I had when we tried to organize Accurate. Accurate, of course, like every other company, threatened to close if the vote was yes. Many of us were ok with this, figuring that carhaul was better off with them gone. Plus, you never knew who would take the work, Cassens seems to be growing in the Northeast, Active was in Newark, who knows?

And, just for the record, I will load Fridays for Monday. If I can't make the kind of living I want in 5 DAYS(not night), then I need to move on to something else. I work 14-16 hours a day, 2 days a week with my wife and kids is not to much to ask, and I am not lazy for choosing them over work. Thats probably why I still like my job.

Wow, this is an epic post. I think the length got away from me a bit...