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<blockquote data-quote="PobreCarlos" data-source="post: 816007" data-attributes="member: 16651"><p>Bug;</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I heard of it...and I'm not aware that deregulation, per se, put any LTL carrier out of business. Can you name one that it did? As I recall, they all pretty much went out of business due to their failure to compete. And one wonders....just what was the reason behind their inability to compete effectively?</p><p></p><p>I am aware, however, that deregulation opened up a competitive environment - an environment in which only the most efficient and cost-effective could succeed. Now, the carriers existing prior to "deregulation" (primarily "union") had a leg up in that regard, in that they had already had their capitalization, their physical plant, and their workforce in place....while the start-ups had to play catch-up big time in order to match those advantages held by the "senior" firms. They, themselves, however, had one big advantage; i.e. - they were primarily non-union.</p><p></p><p>Now the union which had organized the existing firms could have made the decision to become competitive itself; to make sure that its members offered the most efficient, most cost-effective labor alternative available. Did it do so? No....no way! Instead, in its recalcitrance, it simply threw their members jobs away, apparently thinking that, just because they were "union", the world owed them a living without their having to earn it.</p><p></p><p>Result? While the industry as a whole thrived, the Teamster-organized firms bit the dust, one by one....to the point that it's at today, where there are virtually no NMFA LTL Teamsters left. Or, for that matter, outside of UPS, hardly a significant percentage of transportation industry Teamster workers around either.</p><p></p><p>So "yes", I have heard "about the de-regulation of the industry"...and I've also heard it being used as the justification the Teamsters use for their own inadequacies for decades now. In a very real sense, it's at the root of their denial of reality. And, seemingly, their ignorance as well; do so many Teamsters not realize that "regulation" was just a form of welfare? And that in maintaining that "deregulation" is the basis of their doing poorly now, they're essentially saying that they HAVE TO HAVE WELFARE to exist? Or do they suppose that the employers and public at large - the entities they depend upon to make their living - are so stupid as to NOT recognize welfare where it exists or existed?</p><p></p><p>The Teamsters could have adapted to "de-regulation", and they had every opportunity to do so. Instead, they buried their heads in the sand. And one see the consequences of that head burial today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PobreCarlos, post: 816007, member: 16651"] Bug; Yeah, I heard of it...and I'm not aware that deregulation, per se, put any LTL carrier out of business. Can you name one that it did? As I recall, they all pretty much went out of business due to their failure to compete. And one wonders....just what was the reason behind their inability to compete effectively? I am aware, however, that deregulation opened up a competitive environment - an environment in which only the most efficient and cost-effective could succeed. Now, the carriers existing prior to "deregulation" (primarily "union") had a leg up in that regard, in that they had already had their capitalization, their physical plant, and their workforce in place....while the start-ups had to play catch-up big time in order to match those advantages held by the "senior" firms. They, themselves, however, had one big advantage; i.e. - they were primarily non-union. Now the union which had organized the existing firms could have made the decision to become competitive itself; to make sure that its members offered the most efficient, most cost-effective labor alternative available. Did it do so? No....no way! Instead, in its recalcitrance, it simply threw their members jobs away, apparently thinking that, just because they were "union", the world owed them a living without their having to earn it. Result? While the industry as a whole thrived, the Teamster-organized firms bit the dust, one by one....to the point that it's at today, where there are virtually no NMFA LTL Teamsters left. Or, for that matter, outside of UPS, hardly a significant percentage of transportation industry Teamster workers around either. So "yes", I have heard "about the de-regulation of the industry"...and I've also heard it being used as the justification the Teamsters use for their own inadequacies for decades now. In a very real sense, it's at the root of their denial of reality. And, seemingly, their ignorance as well; do so many Teamsters not realize that "regulation" was just a form of welfare? And that in maintaining that "deregulation" is the basis of their doing poorly now, they're essentially saying that they HAVE TO HAVE WELFARE to exist? Or do they suppose that the employers and public at large - the entities they depend upon to make their living - are so stupid as to NOT recognize welfare where it exists or existed? The Teamsters could have adapted to "de-regulation", and they had every opportunity to do so. Instead, they buried their heads in the sand. And one see the consequences of that head burial today. [/QUOTE]
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