I have to agree, I seriously doubt that the Teamsters would have anything to do with Swift. Though...it couldn't hurt :lol:

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Someone correct me if I am wrong, If the employees of Swift want to vote the union in, Swift does not have any say in the matter??? IIRC, a Union company is union becasue of the employees not, the company bringing them in.

what's that Heavy?

It's too hard to organize OTR drivers because they aren't into pay, bennies, or hometime.

They seem to be more content with things like chicken lights, big radios, fancy lugnut covers, and chrome. Not that there's anything wrong with that stuff - to each their own, as the saying goes. But personally, I'd rather have higher .cpm, better benefits, and more time kicked back at the homestead.

yeah, your right. The employees of Swift would be the ones that would vote.

It would also be to hard to organize an industry (OTR Drivers) were the turnover rate is so high.

Over 100 percent turnover rate with almost 18000 drivers spread all over the country. That would be almost impossible.

Swift is now a privately held company, no outside stocks, one person has the say in how, when and how his company is run. If Swift was still publicly held, then yes, the drivers could try and unionize, but I am afraid it would fail miserably.

OOIDA's Land Line Magazine and the Trucker Newspaper have both had articles about the final buy back of all the outstanding stock by Jerry Moyes.

I think having a union would be better under a private company. At least with most publicly held companies you can pressure management with unfair working conditions through stockholders. I still think it would be next to impossible to organize such a massive company.

The employees of Walmart have failed, numerous attempts to unionize in this country, and they have had some pretty serious ogranizations behind them in the process.

So trying to unionize the drivers of one company, the size of Swift - theoretically impossible.

I would have to research whether or not they could legally try it, without retribution from the owner. Hmm, something more to ponder.

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