[uptoolate]

A Local 705 rank and filer who asked not to be identified said that after a year spent watching “death by a thousand cuts,” workers are expecting YRC to fold. Will the company’s 50,000 shipments per day be taken up by non-union competitors?

The non-union company I drive for has been gaining so much market share from them that we are all mostly working 10-12 hrs a day and have been on a hiring spree.

[Alberta's Child]

I like to hear stories like that -- I mean in terms of a company that's busy at a time like this, regardless of whether it's union or non-union.

You happy with the work you're doing there? If so, then all the best to you -- and best of luck to your busy employer, too!

[doc1019]

Back in the day (early 60’s), before I went into the military, I was a non-union driver. I still have a scar on my forehead gained from a union, non-union confrontation at a truck stop. The union drivers kept telling us that we were fools for not joining the union … yet, we were making twice the wages they were. And, because we were non-union, union dues were not taken from our paychecks. Fools they.