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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 4741456" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>!. Not their responsibility to provide replacements but they still reserve the right to approve or DISSAPROVE who drove my route in my absence. </p><p>2. Saturdays and Sundays. I ran 6 days a week with no days off for over 6 years. Why? HD was bringing back so many boxes on Saturday night that were dumped onto me to haul out on Monday boxes that were then charged to my service I had to run on Saturdays just to try to keep up with it. </p><p>3. If the government does not get involved in every contract .. then why did it get involved in this one? Furthermore the only means available to resolve disputes was through an arbitration process designed to hear only a very limited and narrow range of cases and guess who reserves the right to choose the people who sit on the arbitration board? Good luck winning with the deck already stacked against you.</p><p>4 Discipline rules and conduct Exactly the same for contractors as FXG/RPS own employees. The only difference is the employees have standard labor law protections and due process. None of which are available to so called "independent contractors" It's like I told the so called "contract relations manager"... "Migrant farm workers have better protection under the law than we so called "contractors have". When it's in the company's best interest that we are employees...we're employees...When it's in the company's best interest that we're contractors...then we're contractors". When he couldn't refute what I was saying that so called "contractor relations" manager quit the following week. And that so called "safety manager" I called out earlier... his response?... " I can't argue that point"....He quit the following month.</p><p>5 "I don't know anything about that" . You got that right. A whole lot more went on that you don't know about or chase not to know about And your ability to play dumb is conclusive proof that you're a true RPS/FXG manager.</p><p>6. Sooner or later both the RLA exemption and the so called "contractor model will come under congressional review. The RLA exemption was granted in in light of the unique market niche express was operating in at the time . Now everybody's doing it. And the so called "independent contractor" ? There's not a damn thing that "independent contractor" can do that isn't subject to Ground control and oversight. They talk about promoting the creation of "small trucking companies" (Fat Freddy's own words) and the "INDEPENDANT" contractor model.... While still maintaining absolute control in a manner equal to a traditional employer/employee relationship.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 4741456, member: 58386"] !. Not their responsibility to provide replacements but they still reserve the right to approve or DISSAPROVE who drove my route in my absence. 2. Saturdays and Sundays. I ran 6 days a week with no days off for over 6 years. Why? HD was bringing back so many boxes on Saturday night that were dumped onto me to haul out on Monday boxes that were then charged to my service I had to run on Saturdays just to try to keep up with it. 3. If the government does not get involved in every contract .. then why did it get involved in this one? Furthermore the only means available to resolve disputes was through an arbitration process designed to hear only a very limited and narrow range of cases and guess who reserves the right to choose the people who sit on the arbitration board? Good luck winning with the deck already stacked against you. 4 Discipline rules and conduct Exactly the same for contractors as FXG/RPS own employees. The only difference is the employees have standard labor law protections and due process. None of which are available to so called "independent contractors" It's like I told the so called "contract relations manager"... "Migrant farm workers have better protection under the law than we so called "contractors have". When it's in the company's best interest that we are employees...we're employees...When it's in the company's best interest that we're contractors...then we're contractors". When he couldn't refute what I was saying that so called "contractor relations" manager quit the following week. And that so called "safety manager" I called out earlier... his response?... " I can't argue that point"....He quit the following month. 5 "I don't know anything about that" . You got that right. A whole lot more went on that you don't know about or chase not to know about And your ability to play dumb is conclusive proof that you're a true RPS/FXG manager. 6. Sooner or later both the RLA exemption and the so called "contractor model will come under congressional review. The RLA exemption was granted in in light of the unique market niche express was operating in at the time . Now everybody's doing it. And the so called "independent contractor" ? There's not a damn thing that "independent contractor" can do that isn't subject to Ground control and oversight. They talk about promoting the creation of "small trucking companies" (Fat Freddy's own words) and the "INDEPENDANT" contractor model.... While still maintaining absolute control in a manner equal to a traditional employer/employee relationship. [/QUOTE]
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