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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 254178" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>Funny how all these new jr members are coming out of the woodwork and crawling out from under their rocks to launch a crusade to vote this contract down. Remember, the Teamsters had a priorty agenda of importance going into negotiations and felt they achieved this according to what we the members have previously expressed to them. Obviously, evey issue is not attainable, there must be give and take. To think to ask veteran and senior employees to vote no over new hires starting pay, half year raises and senority probation periods IMO is not convincing enough. To think that we would recover volume as easily from the last strike is naive. Our competition are bigger and better than 6 yrs ago ,if we go on strike over these particular issues and lose volume, forget about hiring new hires, those who have been working a short period of time would probably get layed off, many people would get bumped to lower positions, full time job aquisitions would cease, feeder jobs would dry up, our stock would plumet,etc...without a strong thriving Co there won&#039;t be a strong contract five yrs from now. Be careful what you ask for. Instead, ask yourself are these reasons detrimental enough to walk away from my job and lifestyle.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 254178, member: 9859"] Funny how all these new jr members are coming out of the woodwork and crawling out from under their rocks to launch a crusade to vote this contract down. Remember, the Teamsters had a priorty agenda of importance going into negotiations and felt they achieved this according to what we the members have previously expressed to them. Obviously, evey issue is not attainable, there must be give and take. To think to ask veteran and senior employees to vote no over new hires starting pay, half year raises and senority probation periods IMO is not convincing enough. To think that we would recover volume as easily from the last strike is naive. Our competition are bigger and better than 6 yrs ago ,if we go on strike over these particular issues and lose volume, forget about hiring new hires, those who have been working a short period of time would probably get layed off, many people would get bumped to lower positions, full time job aquisitions would cease, feeder jobs would dry up, our stock would plumet,etc...without a strong thriving Co there won't be a strong contract five yrs from now. Be careful what you ask for. Instead, ask yourself are these reasons detrimental enough to walk away from my job and lifestyle. [/QUOTE]

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