#trucking union

[iww-gnv]

ST. LOUIS — The Teamsters Union made an abrupt announcement Monday morning: It had received notice that the Nashville, Tennessee-based trucking giant Yellow Corp. was closing operations and planned to file for bankruptcy. The expected closure leaves tens of thousands of jobs in the balance, and the impact on already delicate supply chains won’t be known for weeks to come. At the company’s sprawling truck yard in the Kosciusko neighborhood of St. Louis on Monday, signs were posted noting that “all company operations have ceased” as of Sunday. Trailers were positioned to block the entrances to the yard. “Today’s news is unfortunate but not surprising,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement. “Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government. This is a sad day for workers and the American freight industry.”

[notbecauseofvictories]

I know my experience is not universal, but I biked 5+ miles to do my errands today and I genuinely think we'd be much happier as a human collective if we increased residential density and switched to largely alternative modes of transportation.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

What is Justin Trudeau’s plan to end the Canada Post strike so my LPSS gets let out of jail

[bishopony]

welllll it looks like i'm gonna be quitting my IRL job. i'm upset cause I really liked it, I'm supposed to be doing warehouse work and truck processing which I enjoy, but they overhired and even though they hired more people weeks after I'd joined on I got stuck shelving product to justify hours, which I'm also not getting the promised amount of. absolutely cannot justify waking up at 4 am and driving 45 minutes to stock shelves

but anyways, that's kind of good news for you guys cause that means I'm gonna have more time for art and be able to take on more commissions sooner than planned

[that-bitch-abbi-lynne]

You think someone shouldn’t earn a living wage because of their job? You think a job isn’t a “real” job just because its skill set doesn’t require schooling to gain? Fine, you do it. You go wait tables. You go flip burgers. You go deliver pizza. You go drive a semi truck for 12 hours a day. You go clean up shit and piss and vomit every day. You deal with the stares, the cries that you aren’t doing hard work, that your job somehow makes you worth less, that your life is worth less. You go do those jobs, and you do them for nothing, you break your back for free doing jobs other people need you to do, and then you come back here and tell me that the people who do those jobs don’t deserve a paycheck they can actually live on. You don’t get to bitch about people wanting more pay unless you’re willing to do what they do for the same or less. You don’t get to tell people they aren’t working a “real” job unless you’d be willing to do it for free. You don’t get to treat people like they’re lesser than you unless you would want people to treat you like that while you worked their job.

[t13shoots]

[bacony-cakes]

made a ZIL-130 truck in spore for an adventure

[gaytruckerthoughts]

huge dockworker strike in ports across the country!! approximately 69% of goods imported expected to be effected

completely essential workers in the supply chain of literally everything we consume

we (the usa) get a lot of food produced in california and the midwest, so that shouldn't end up being too dire if the strike is a long one

be very very very interested to see how truckers react to this, and gauge interest level when/if the dockworkers get what they need

payment scams, pay below cost of living, dispatchers who press drivers to drive in unsafe conditions, and lease-to-purchase scam 'programs' are rampant in the industry. just sayin

[ultrakillingmyself]

God help me I’m thinking of a modern au of riptide where the captains are illegal food truck owners and the story goes through the different npcs and why they’d stop by while doing what they’re doing

[iww-gnv]

Oct 2 (Reuters) - About 4,000 workers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) reached an agreement with Volvo Group-owned Mack Trucks just before midnight Eastern Standard Time (0400 GMT) on Sunday, the union and the company said. The temporary agreement must still be ratified by the UAW. "The terms of this tentative agreement would deliver significantly increased wages and continue first-class benefits for Mack employees and their families," Mack President Stephen Roy said in a statement. The union announced the deal on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. About 98% of the truck company's workers had authorized a strike last month, according to the UAW. The UAW is currently in the third week of an ongoing strike against the Detroit 3 automakers, General Motors (GM.N), Ford and Chrysler parent Stellantis (STLAM.MI). Should Mack workers have gone on strike, it could have strained the UAW's limited strike fund.

[lichenbug]

sometimes there is an instant solidarity between me n random delivery workers that drop stuff off at the hotel. im glad i have the vibe of someone who hates amazon so much

[vintagebarvinok]

[beefosaur]

constantly feel like im not drawing oderus ugly enough and i feel like guilty about it. he’s so peculiarly-shaped man i am not doing him justice

[lukore]

It's interesting the ways they're killing off so many symbolic rhymes of the secondary characters of the previous three movies

[clochanamarch]

aisling finds out what an average american school lunch looks like and she has to lie down for four hours.

[t13shoots]