Carhaul: What Will Happen with Allied?
June 9, 2010: The contract status of 3,000 working and laid-off carhaul Teamsters at Allied remains up in the air, after Judge Mullins in U.S. bankruptcy court in Atlanta today refused to get involved in interpreting the contract.
Management, which tried to get the bankruptcy judge to intervene three years after the bankruptcy ended, contends that they cannot pay the 20 percent increase, and that the concession agreement does not contain a “snap-back” clause.
IBT Carhaul Director Fred Zuckerman says it does contain a snap-back, and now says that he has asked James Hoffa what action to take at this time.
The concession agreement language in dispute states that “Upon the expiration of this addendum [at the end of May], the parties shall meet to negotiate a transition to the full terms and conditions of the NMATA.”
CEO Mark Gendregske says he is willing to negotiate and that he wants one more year before coming up to full contract scale. Zuckerman says Allied Teamsters will get full scale starting immediately.
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remember PTS , the same thing may happen to Allied. this is just big buisnnes, even if we do give them there pay cut. But it might help,we all need to vote on it, My personnel oppion i can live on full froze as is but running mile needs to come back to where it should be. Just keep this in mind, can we afford to give up our PENSION and let Allied be LIQUIDATED.
the drivers will get jobs with cassens and cooper, let allied die and go away. it will make everything better for all drivers and carriers. it will fill the remaining carriers trucks and allow them to survive and hire the allied drivers at full union scale with companies that can and will be here next year and in ten years. best thing for all is to let allied go away forever.
I can not understand why this was not defined in the contract three years ago? It seems to me that someone agreed three years ago to “Upon the expiration of this addendum [at the end of May], the parties shall meet to negotiate a transition to the full terms and conditions of the NMATA.” to get the deal done then. That statement has labor dispute written all over it.
CEO Mark Gendregske Wants one more year, one more year of what? Allied not following the original agreement. Our pay we gave them was to go into a truck fund that would be independently audited by a third party. We were supposed to receive reports that our money was being spent properly, never happened. I have personally seen brand new trucks from our fleet go to Canada.Who paid for them? Allied's scab locations called axis or c.t. services yards were to become teamsters yards, never happened. A few token allied drivers have been placed there but not many. I have been told the Dearborn Schaffer hwy. yard is 10 to 1 sacbs to union drivers. Meanwile about two miles down the road allied drivers are laid off and trucks are sitting.
I hope that everyone who was drinking the Ron Burkle cool aid three years ago wakes up. Yucipa does not care about us, Billionaire Ron Burkle does not care about us! They are investers, they want return on capital, thats it. They bought this company cheap. They want to squeeze it for what they can and flip it. PERIOD.
I feel like we should stand up to these corporate thieves and show them who runs the carhauling industry. The drivers, not some smooth talking executive who is just here for to make his money and run.