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[scoobydoo33198]

I am from the DTW station in Detroit, MI, Local 299. I was wondering if the other stations with layoffs or the "bump and roll" were leaving freight and routes on the floor? I know that our station is, and our manager says the customer doesn't amtter as long as he can get his hours down for the whole station. I think that is idiotic, but who am I, just a dumb driver. I think the national contract with "full time laid off employees being part time employees" was a stab in the back. Do you have a 40 hour guarantee in your areas? We do, so now that laid off employees who choose not to take part time are screwed, where as before we could work 1,2,3,4 or 5 days if the company needed us, now if they call you one day, you are guaranteed 40, so they just don't call us. Hence, the customer and the drivers suffer, and they don't give a crap. What the heck are the people in Germany thinking about this? Is this how they do business over there? If so, I don't see how they make it as the biggest international shipping company there is.Obviously they know how to run a business, its the idiots they have here that are doing them in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[TeamsterUnity]

scoobydoo33198, on Sep 1 2008, 10:11 PM, said:

I am from the DTW station in Detroit, MI, Local 299. I was wondering if the other stations with layoffs or the "bump and roll" were leaving freight and routes on the floor? I know that our station is, and our manager says the customer doesn't amtter as long as he can get his hours down for the whole station. I think that is idiotic, but who am I, just a dumb driver. I think the national contract with "full time laid off employees being part time employees" was a stab in the back. Do you have a 40 hour guarantee in your areas? We do, so now that laid off employees who choose not to take part time are screwed, where as before we could work 1,2,3,4 or 5 days if the company needed us, now if they call you one day, you are guaranteed 40, so they just don't call us. Hence, the customer and the drivers suffer, and they don't give a crap. What the heck are the people in Germany thinking about this? Is this how they do business over there? If so, I don't see how they make it as the biggest international shipping company there is.Obviously they know how to run a business, its the idiots they have here that are doing them in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Mass layoffs starting this week in New York area. Should be a disaster as freight volume still good so expect service levels to collapse as at your station. DHL about to screw the customer again like they did with the Hub fuck up. They are attempting to shrink the business but they will destroy the brand this way. If they were smart, which they are not, they should just overprice the service types of the business they don't want and watch them shrink away while maintaining or improving service levels.
We are under a white paper contract with 40 hour guarantee. Contract prevents forced demotions, bump and roll, forced relocations, layoffs out of seniority order but Local 295 not stopping DHL from doing all four. Deutsche Post attitude is "Fuck you all, we're outta here!"

[TeamsterUnity]

scoobydoo33198, on Sep 1 2008, 10:11 PM, said:

I am from the DTW station in Detroit, MI, Local 299. I was wondering if the other stations with layoffs or the "bump and roll" were leaving freight and routes on the floor? I know that our station is, and our manager says the customer doesn't amtter as long as he can get his hours down for the whole station. I think that is idiotic, but who am I, just a dumb driver. I think the national contract with "full time laid off employees being part time employees" was a stab in the back. Do you have a 40 hour guarantee in your areas? We do, so now that laid off employees who choose not to take part time are screwed, where as before we could work 1,2,3,4 or 5 days if the company needed us, now if they call you one day, you are guaranteed 40, so they just don't call us. Hence, the customer and the drivers suffer, and they don't give a crap. What the heck are the people in Germany thinking about this? Is this how they do business over there? If so, I don't see how they make it as the biggest international shipping company there is.Obviously they know how to run a business, its the idiots they have here that are doing them in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Mass layoffs starting this week in New York area. Should be a disaster as freight volume still good so expect service levels to collapse as at your station. DHL about to screw the customer again like they did with the Hub fuck up. They are attempting to shrink the business but they will destroy the brand this way. If they were smart, which they are not, they should just overprice the service types of the business they don't want and watch them shrink away while maintaining or improving service levels.
We are under a white paper contract with 40 hour guarantee. Contract prevents forced demotions, bump and roll, forced relocations, layoffs out of seniority order but Local 295 not stopping DHL from doing all four. Deutsche Post attitude is "Fuck you all, we're outta here!"

[TeamsterUnity]

Find another job quickly. This one won't be worth having!

[dhl_driver295]

TeamsterUnity, on Sep 2 2008, 01:04 AM, said:

Find another job quickly. This one won't be worth having!

The companyhas been losing large amounts of money for years now. Although i believe the major cause of this has been caused by bad management, we will take it on the chin and have layoffs. There has been alot of finger pointing towards the union about this which is just silly, or local is like a business and with loss of members means less collections of dues, they want as many members as possible. I just hope we find a way to make this work I like and need this job good luck to all

[tommyteamster]

scoobydoo33198, on Sep 2 2008, 01:11 PM, said:

I am from the DTW station in Detroit, MI, Local 299. I was wondering if the other stations with layoffs or the "bump and roll" were leaving freight and routes on the floor? I know that our station is, and our manager says the customer doesn't amtter as long as he can get his hours down for the whole station. I think that is idiotic, but who am I, just a dumb driver. I think the national contract with "full time laid off employees being part time employees" was a stab in the back. Do you have a 40 hour guarantee in your areas? We do, so now that laid off employees who choose not to take part time are screwed, where as before we could work 1,2,3,4 or 5 days if the company needed us, now if they call you one day, you are guaranteed 40, so they just don't call us. Hence, the customer and the drivers suffer, and they don't give a crap. What the heck are the people in Germany thinking about this? Is this how they do business over there? If so, I don't see how they make it as the biggest international shipping company there is.Obviously they know how to run a business, its the idiots they have here that are doing them in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

All Phila cluster stations going through the same thing. Using the drivers that are still working for 12-14 hours per day, laying off the remainder. Attempted a part time shift, but 20 of the people that accepted the 3 hour days were former full timers, which meant that contractually DHL had to pay into their H and W, and pension funds for the complete 8 hour day, while paying the normal prevailing wage for the 3 hours that were worked, and also allowing those that jumped on the part time shift, to supplement their lost wages with unemployment compensation.

All told, it cost them a fortune. They never expected to have the former full timers accept part time work. As it turned out, we had 6 or 7 new faces working for shit wages, and no benefits. Everyone else was a laid off full timer. The whole fiasco lasted about 3 weeks. I guess it took that long for the pencil pushers and "do what you are told" types to realize the cost involved.

As of the past couple of weeks, we too are leaving freight on the floor, not honoring commitment times, getting out later. Your bosses bonuses are based on man hours. The more hours they cut, the bigger their bonus. Unfortunately, the bigger picture has always eluded them. They can cut, cut, cut, until there's nothing left, but then their golden goose will be dead. We are nothing more than a service provider. If we can no longer honor our service commitments, we are through.

[DHL]

A very nice post tommyt and really telling why things are the way they have become

[thedumbdriver]

I am at the Jbk station here in the bay area sf and Oakland there doing the same shit here they had some enginers come through and then they started it before they wanted everyone off the clock no ot now short on routes and you can go back out and deliver for 12 hours a day if you want to noone knows what the f is going on I think we are saveing money buy comiting suiside it would'nt hurt if they fired at least 3/4 of the vp's the have 100 inthe states 2 for every state I thought the Germans made Mercades and bmw fine enginering ???????????????????????????????????

[DhlBlowME]

UPS & DHL are teamsters so why don't the Teamsters take a stand beside us? So Why they don't say NO to the UPS & DHL Deal

WHERE IS THERE SUPPORT.........

[Blade]

scoobydoo33198, on Sep 2 2008, 04:11 AM, said:

I am from the DTW station in Detroit, MI, Local 299. I was wondering if the other stations with layoffs or the "bump and roll" were leaving freight and routes on the floor? I know that our station is, and our manager says the customer doesn't amtter as long as he can get his hours down for the whole station. I think that is idiotic, but who am I, just a dumb driver. I think the national contract with "full time laid off employees being part time employees" was a stab in the back. Do you have a 40 hour guarantee in your areas? We do, so now that laid off employees who choose not to take part time are screwed, where as before we could work 1,2,3,4 or 5 days if the company needed us, now if they call you one day, you are guaranteed 40, so they just don't call us. Hence, the customer and the drivers suffer, and they don't give a crap. What the heck are the people in Germany thinking about this? Is this how they do business over there? If so, I don't see how they make it as the biggest international shipping company there is.Obviously they know how to run a business, its the idiots they have here that are doing them in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Same Thing going on at CLE. It only takes common sense to run this company, but that is what the current management lacks. The union and the company should make provisions on the current contract to be able to replace drivers that call in sick with a layed off driver and get paid for hours worked and benefits paid for the week if worked one day or more. I think it the beginning of the end if our union doesnt address this issue now.

[smarty jones]

THESE MOTHER FERSSS ARE JUST SHRINKING THE COMPANY TO INTERNATIONAL AND EXPRESS AGAIN. WE HAD AT THE BEGINNING OF JULY 77 ON OUR LIST WE ARE NOW DOWN TO 40 AS OF OCT 16. GONNA GET WORSE FOR NEXT COUPLE WEEKS. HOPEFULLY IT WILL LEVEL OFF AND WE CAN SAVE 30 SOME JOBS AT OUR BUILDING. FUCK THE COMPANY,GERMANS AND MANAGEMENT ASSHOLES. JUST TRY TO KEEP AS MANY CUST AS POSSIBLE. CAUSE THEY AINT.

[louise98]

This whole thing is setting the thread on fire. Good luck.

Regards,
Louise
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