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<blockquote data-quote="teamster 804" data-source="post: 1201318" data-attributes="member: 47758">VOTE YES!! On a supplement that finally gives our members a pension&nbsp;&nbsp; increase in almost 15 years.300 dollars to 400 dollars a month.Whether&nbsp;&nbsp; you are working here 2 years or 25 years we need a pension increase.If&nbsp;&nbsp; you are a driver ask yourself do you want to work more than 25 years on&nbsp;&nbsp; that truck do you think you can survive 25 years on that truck.Well if&nbsp;&nbsp; we dont start getting pension increases now,forget about 25 and out if&nbsp;&nbsp; your pension is not big enough to support your retirement.Unfortunately&nbsp;&nbsp; our previous board did not fight for a raise in our pension for almost&nbsp;&nbsp; 15 years they even tried to cut it.Maybe if they would have managed&nbsp; our&nbsp; pension properly, and fought for raises all the supplements they&nbsp;&nbsp; negotiated,our pension would have been in better shape but it is&nbsp;&nbsp; not.People are leading you to believe we are losing Election day as a&nbsp;&nbsp; triple time day.Dont believe the B/S Election day is becoming a floating&nbsp;&nbsp; holiday to use when you want from Jan 16 thru Thanksgiving still at&nbsp;&nbsp; same rate of pay.Use it before your vacation if you need extra cash use&nbsp;&nbsp; it to replace your hot water heater if it goes and you need extra&nbsp;&nbsp; cash,whenever etc.I have even heard someone say we are losing leverage&nbsp;&nbsp; making election day floating.Leverage to do what take off on Election&nbsp;&nbsp; day to lose money because you dont like your manager.We are here to make&nbsp;&nbsp; money that is our highest paid day GIVE ME A BREAK with leverage!!!&nbsp;&nbsp; There are going to be a better grievance procedure in place,grievances&nbsp;&nbsp; will be heard in one to three months instead of getting lost.VCD drivers&nbsp;&nbsp; can only be used to cover vacations not to supplement regular&nbsp; workforce&nbsp; they cannot be used to take away your overtime.I see part&nbsp; timers&nbsp; everyday pulling out of the building as helpers now.Vacation&nbsp; cover&nbsp; drivers are for vacation coverage only.This is a good supplement&nbsp; read it&nbsp; over, go to our locals website get the facts not the B/S some&nbsp; guys are dishing out for there own agenda.Full time drivers once supplement is passed and we get a pension increase, retiring trailer drivers jobs will open for package car drivers who want that position.Part timers once pension increase is passed more full time jobs will open as full time drivers retire.Open your eyes!!!!
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[QUOTE="teamster 804, post: 1201318, member: 47758"] VOTE YES!! On a supplement that finally gives our members a pension increase in almost 15 years.300 dollars to 400 dollars a month.Whether you are working here 2 years or 25 years we need a pension increase.If you are a driver ask yourself do you want to work more than 25 years on that truck do you think you can survive 25 years on that truck.Well if we dont start getting pension increases now,forget about 25 and out if your pension is not big enough to support your retirement.Unfortunately our previous board did not fight for a raise in our pension for almost 15 years they even tried to cut it.Maybe if they would have managed our pension properly, and fought for raises all the supplements they negotiated,our pension would have been in better shape but it is not.People are leading you to believe we are losing Election day as a triple time day.Dont believe the B/S Election day is becoming a floating holiday to use when you want from Jan 16 thru Thanksgiving still at same rate of pay.Use it before your vacation if you need extra cash use it to replace your hot water heater if it goes and you need extra cash,whenever etc.I have even heard someone say we are losing leverage making election day floating.Leverage to do what take off on Election day to lose money because you dont like your manager.We are here to make money that is our highest paid day GIVE ME A BREAK with leverage!!! There are going to be a better grievance procedure in place,grievances will be heard in one to three months instead of getting lost.VCD drivers can only be used to cover vacations not to supplement regular workforce they cannot be used to take away your overtime.I see part timers everyday pulling out of the building as helpers now.Vacation cover drivers are for vacation coverage only.This is a good supplement read it over, go to our locals website get the facts not the B/S some guys are dishing out for there own agenda.Full time drivers once supplement is passed and we get a pension increase, retiring trailer drivers jobs will open for package car drivers who want that position.Part timers once pension increase is passed more full time jobs will open as full time drivers retire.Open your eyes!!!! [LEFT][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/LEFT] Read more: [URL]http://www.browncafe.com/forum/f39/804-members-coming-soon-agitator-2-a-325420/index840.html#ixzz2fvl77fBW[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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