The problem is most sales people want us to do their jobs for them, and granted we can find some, but they could do a whole lot more.
The union seems to let this subcontracting go on without much fuss, and that's plain ridiculous, and weak, there are other solutions.
Uh, I thot I said earlier in this same thread that WE are the ones that have to collect the #'s, the company hauling the stuff, the loads, etc.?
Sure, the union ain't gonna do nothin if WE don't do nothin to tell them about it! How's THAT for proper English? I have won subcontracting grievances time and time again because WE are the ones that caught the trailers going down the road or pulling from the rail yard.
You think the company is going to voluntarily give this info to the union? To us? You think the union is just sitting at our buildings watching every trailer or tractor pulling out or in? We have to be on first watch, then hand the information to our steward who can very easily and legally obtain where the load originated or the load's destination and, in most cases, who the contractor was and why. If WE would have had the hours to pull this, then, by all means WE file and WE win! Simple!
WE have to get involved and do the footwork and not rely on others to do it for us! It's easy.