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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA - Teamsters accept more concessions at YRC Worldwide
To keep the struggling trucking company viable into 2011
Overland Park,KN,USA -The Kansas City Star by RANDOLPH HEASTER -30 Oct 2010: -- Once again, YRC Worldwide Inc.’s drivers and dockworkers have accepted concessions aimed at keeping the struggling trucking company viable into 2011... With results of a much awaited vote released Saturday, the Teamsters said union members at YRC’s operating units approved the extended agreement by healthy margins... At national carrier YRC Inc. and regional unit USF Holland, 62 percent voted to ratify and 38 percent voted against it... At New Penn, a YRC regional carrier in the Northeast, the vote was 69 percent approving the agreement and 31 percent rejecting the pact... The concessions extend the union’s national contract with YRC to March 2015 and maintain 15 percent wage cuts accepted last year, when workers voted on two occasions to ratify cost-cutting proposals... In addition, the new pact allows YRC to continue suspending monthly payments into union pension plans until June. When those payments resume, the contribution will be at one-fourth the levels that were paid previously. Union workers agreed to allow YRC to stop pension payments in July 2009... YRC has said the new agreement will save the company $350 million annually... Regardless, Bruce Frakes, a YRC over-the-road driver and union steward for Teamsters Local 41, said the vote Saturday shows that the YRC work force believes the carrier is viable and will return to financial success with additional restructuring and an improving economy... (Photo from aircargoworld: YRC Worldwide's trucks)
* ABF Sues YRC Unit, Teamsters Union Over Master Freight Contract
Fort Smith,AR,USA -Transport Topics -1 Nov 2010: -- ABF Freight System said it filed legal actions Monday against units of YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters union for what it said were violations of the National Master Freight Agreement collective bargaining agreement that covers most U.S. unionized trucking employees... ABF filed a grievance under the NMFA and an accompanying lawsuit naming the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and several Teamster units and affiliates, and YRC Worldwide units YRC Inc., New Penn Motor Express and USF Holland... “We have the obligation to our employees, to our customers and to Arkansas Best shareholders to enforce our rights under the NMFA and compete on the same playing field with our industry peers,” ABF’s Kemp said in the company’s statement... ABF Freight System is the less-than-truckload company and largest operating unit of Arkansas Best Corp... (Photo from alanselmanaj: Alan truck. Paul Gattin of Benton, ABF Freight System) 
* Illinois - Byrne Transportation Seeks Independent Agents. People Working from Home Can Earn Good Living
Warrenville,ILL,USA -The SFGate -October 31, 2010: -- Byrne Transportation Services, LLC, a family-owned truck transportation broker, has begun a nation-wide campaign looking for qualified people to be independent agents for the company... "The person does not need experience in the trucking industry, though, of course, that will be an advantage" says John Byrne, vice president and chief operating officer. "Ideally, the person will have a phone, a computer, and the drive to begin developing contacts with friends and clients who have occasional or steady need for the movement of goods from one place to another" ... Byrne says the net profit from the sale will be shared equally by the agent and Byrne Transportation Services. Byrne will provide the software programs and counseling a person will need while starting the business, likely based in someone's home anywhere in the country... "A recruiter who knows the company told us that someone enjoying modest success in this work will have an annual income of $75,000," Byrne says... (Logo from profile.ak.fbcdn.net)
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