YRC Teamsters-Local 79

TEAM LETTER 107
Teamster Employees Against Mismanagement
WOW! We now know what YRC wants from us, are they kidding? You talk about a set of brass ones, that CEO really has a huge set. I can’t believe that he proposed these changes and can still keep a straight face. There are so many issues that need to be addressed that it will take more than a couple of letters to explain it all. Well let’s take this MOU, one step at time. First let’s talk about the “Ratification Bonus”, all I can think of is a turd called a doughnut, is still a turd. IS HE KIDDING, that so called bonus is our 2014 and 2015 raises just given to us early. If we take this BONUS, we will be robbing ourselves of $.80 an hour from 2015 on….that is ludicrous. Yellow did this after the strike, to get us to ratify the contract, and for that we lost out on our raise for every hour since then. I guess Welch is bringing back a game that worked before. This is no bonus for us if we take his $750.00 bribe to pass this, we will be costing us, well let’s see:
50 hours a week is 50 X .40 =$20.00 , times 52 weeks = $ 1,040.00 for 2014 and
50 hours a week is 50 X .80 =$40.00 , times 52 weeks = $ 2,080.00 for 2015, and that same amount for however many years you have left before retirement. Is that really worth a quick $750.00 Bonus? So Welch is willing to give us a total of $1,500.00, and then we in turn give him $3,120.00. PLUS all the money we would have earned in overtime, vacation, sick days, etc. for the rest of our career at YRC. Like I said earlier when is a bonus not a bonus, when it is given at YRC.
And in this whole MOU I didn’t see one word either from the Union or YRC about finally getting a MOU grievance panel, funny how that isn’t important to either party, especially those that are supposed to be watching out for us for the dues that we pay very month, why didn’t they make the grievance panel a priority in these negotiations?