User:Joseph N Cowgur

I've been in the Teamsters, for over twenty years and after having worked for Consolidated Freightways from 1991 to 2003 then Yellow Freight, from 2005 to 2008 I've had enough. I remember when I first started we couldn't even use a fork lift as a casual. Now to give you just an idea of how this worked the men we worked some had hire dates with this company going as far back as the late 1950,s. I think my first two years we had two hired in 1958 one in 1959 and four or five hired in 1960. The dates followed the senority list from that to the most recent men hired in 1990. I studied the list and the company had years that they had 3 or 4 years in a row they hired as many as 15 to 20 men. This was in 8 to 12 year intervals and I think it was just that enough men would retire then they ended up short handed during the busy season from around Oct to Jan and needed to hire more men because of excess overtime. I remember the two years before I hired on the company had hired 24 men in 1998 23 men in 1999 and 22 men in 1990 the year I started as a casual.