Love how they blame the Union instead of debt at the end of the article.
99-year old trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30k out of work
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Love how they blame the Union instead of debt at the end of the article.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
The trucking industry is fucked. I drove for ten years. Most companies walk all over their drivers while paying them peanuts.
I did the math a while back on the Teamsters and they only represent about 15% of the truckers in Canada. (Im Canadian I didn’t do the math for America so I dunno.) That’s not enough to keep wages high for non-union drivers, which leads to the non-union companies undercutting the union labour, further killing the workers’ ability to bargain.
I keep hearing stats about how North America is short a combined 400,000+ drivers but the job becomes less and less appealing as time go on. That’s why I got out.