Contract ends in 2023

[Thebrownblob]

We're back in 97 they was a private company now they are a public company.

Yep no doubt. really don’t know what it would be like this time.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yep no doubt. really don’t know what it would be like this time.

Can't let the shareholders down.
Strike wouldn't be good for the stock price.

 

[Thebrownblob]

Can't let the shareholders down.
Strike wouldn't be good for the stock price.

That might be a big thing that ends a strike quickly.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

That might be a big thing that ends a strike quickly.

Hopefully pound out a contract quickly. If we end up going on strike there's a lot of people that will not come back because we will lose too much business.

 

[Wally]

Or breaking the union will boost the stock price to new highs. Maybe they hold fast? Try to replace us?

 

[Thebrownblob]

Or breaking the union will boost the stock price to new highs. Maybe they hold fast? Try to replace us?

I think that would be difficult, they can’t find people to do it now.

 

[Wally]

I think that would be difficult, they can’t find people to do it now.

True, but they might pay more to come on board. How long before others cross the line and go back to work?

 

[Thebrownblob]

True, but they might pay more to come on board. How long before others cross the line and go back to work?

Anything is possible, but currently I think we are a bargain for what we do, and how accountable we are.

 

[Wally]

Anything is possible, but currently I think we are a bargain for what we do, and how accountable we are.

I'm just wondering how long the average Teamsters can go without pay?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I think that would be difficult, they can’t find people to do it now.

Yes that would be a very large task.

 

[Thebrownblob]

I'm just wondering how long the average Teamsters can go without pay?

I put $25 a week in a savings account since the beginning of the last contract. I’ll have close to 7K just in my strike fund.

 

[Wally]

I put $25 a week in a savings account since the beginning of the last contract. I’ll have close to 7K just in my strike fund.

I would say you are in the small minority.

My guess is two weeks of no pay is all it would take to financially crush a good chunk.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I would say you are in the small minority.

My guess is two weeks of no pay is all it would take to financially crush a good chunk.

That's what happens when you drive a 75,000 car to work

 

[Wally]

That's what happens when you drive a 75,000 car to work

Yep, plus it's been so long since we've had a work stoppage. Most haven't experienced one

 

[Thebrownblob]

Yep, plus it's been so long since we've had a work stoppage. Most haven't experienced one

It’s sad because 25 bucks a week is nothing you put it in there you leave it alone for five years. If we don’t go on strike we go on a vacation, or buy something nice and start a new one next contract.

 

[Wally]

It’s sad because 25 bucks a week is nothing you put it in there you leave it alone for five years. If we don’t go on strike we go on a vacation, or buy something nice and start a new one next contract.

That would take discipline.

How many don't even have a 401k?

 

[Thebrownblob]

That would take discipline.

How many don't even have a 401k?

Most of them probably blow $25 a week on the soda machine.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yep, plus it's been so long since we've had a work stoppage. Most haven't experienced one

You have to have 25 years in.

 

[Wally]

Most of them probably blow $25 a week on the soda machine.

Young dudes with kids, don't even have life insurance but they have a motorcycle?

 

[BrownFlush]

. I just don’t understand why everyone is so fast to jump to striking.

Because real union men talk “ By God, Strike” in the st house with all the brothers, and then go home and pray under the covers it doesn’t happen and know deep down they are pusillanimous and will vote for anything the company throws at them.
As an added bonus, the company knows such men outnumber real union members, so they know they can write up just about anything they want and they know they’ll get it.
There were different animals driving brown trucks in 97.