The reason was they put 5 Yellow stewards in a room with 2 Roadway stewards and asked them to figure out what to do about combining the seniority lists. The Yellow guys wanted Roadway drivers to go to the bottom. The contract allowed dovetail which is what every single local in the country did with their lists. Well, the Roadway stewards were bullied by the 5 Yellow stewards and no decision was made. So, Steve Pocztowski made a deal. He hooked up the two Roadway stewards with the BA position and the early retirement if they accepted a deal to sandwich drivers instead of dovetail. This was also against what Tyson J had asked them to do. They sandwiched drivers, one Yellow, then one Roadway, then one Yellow, then Roadway, all the way down the list. Well I was with Roadway and when the sandwich was done I had 50 guys hired after me all of a sudden ahead of me. At the time I had 12 years with Roadway and had Yellow drivers with 7 years bidding ahead of me. I filed charges against 705 with the NLRB. Shortly after, I had a serious injury on the job and was out for two years. I sued YRC and when I was out on injury they illegally removed me from the seniority list. I called my BA, Rick Rohe, and he said there was nothing he could do about it. He didn't want me back because I filed charges and also since I knew they were all making all these bull
deals I helped another slate to try to get these
s out of office. So any way they could get rid of me they tried. I was pissed anyways and YRC is still teetering on bankruptcy. I quit, and went back to college and earned a degree. Then I worked various jobs until I decided to get back into truck driving.
My lower back was removed due to my injury and replaced with several titanium spacers and carbon rods. Truck driving isn't the best thing for my back but I have been doing this for almost 20 years and it's what I enjoy doing. Plus I need to finish my pension.
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