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2023-07-30 Economy

Yellow lays off huge swath of workers as embattled 99 year-old trucking firm teeters on brink of bankruptcy

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-30 00:32|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Flashback to Hostess and the union that put into closing and bankruptcy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-30 08:33|| 2023-07-30 08:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Eventually the parasite grows so large that it overwhelms the host.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-07-30 08:35|| 2023-07-30 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Big Labor™ at its ugliest: "Hey, UPS, give us all we want or we will bankrupt you like Yellow!" ...Of course all the employees at the defunct company are just 'collateral damage'. IMO, Big Labor™ is just as rapacious and evil as Big Business™ except that the union management doesn't seem to care how many dues paying workers they deny a payroll to with their tactics ...the management has a business to run and products it has to sell.

Posted by magpie 2023-07-30 10:31|| 2023-07-30 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Wonder why GM builds 70% of its cars in China?

Why businesses went to Mexico?

Why people don't have conferences with a normal slide show in Philadelphia because of union rules?

Why fast-food joints are going to automated kiosks versus paying $15/hour?

We do it to ourselves.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-30 10:59|| 2023-07-30 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Wonder why Union has a hard time winning votes in southern factories, the ones that were built or moved out of Union states.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-30 12:07|| 2023-07-30 12:07|| Front Page Top

#6 In a graduate school business class someone who was described as a senior exec at GM was quoted as saying: "GM is a pension and healthcare company that builds cars."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-07-30 12:57|| 2023-07-30 12:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Why people don't have conferences with a normal slide show in Philadelphia because of union rules?

Come to McCormick Place in Chicago and try to plug in an extension cord or power strip to a a wall or floor outlet.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-07-30 14:08|| 2023-07-30 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, how I loved being given instruction on how to behave in the paste up room at the newspaper. Hands in pockets. If I touched anything it could trigger a grievance from the pressmen's union.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-30 14:26|| 2023-07-30 14:26|| Front Page Top

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