| Oklahoma
City, OK. - Mass termination of Consolidated
Freightways employees occurred during the Labor Day weekend in 2002.
However during this years holiday event, an estimated 800 employees of Yellow/Roadway were handed
their pink slips in style. |
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When non-union employees of Yellow/Roadway reported to
work today in their various positions system wide. A supervisor of one
form or another, asked their subordinate to report to their office. At
that point they were gracefully informed of their dismissal effective
immediately. In exchange, a handsome severance check was issued based on
their length of service with their respective company.
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At the "General Offices" in Kansas, it was
said that approximately three hundred employees were dismissed and
escorted out of the building. At the time of this writing, some employees
are still unaware of their dismissal due to the nature of their shift work
schedule.
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| To add insult to injury, a
competent source has informed us that the claims division has been
outsourced to India. |
| Some employees were
demoted in order to be allowed to remain on the job. No press release
could be found to outline these events. |
| The mass dismissals have
the appearance of the merging of management from Yellow and Roadway into
one single chain of command. It has been a slow process for YRC
North
American Transportation, (the parent corp), of moving the two
organizations onto one property, ie; closing a Roadway terminal in a
city where a Yellow terminal also is established. Then moving the
Roadway equipment and employees into the same terminal with Yellow. |
At terminals were the
merging of the two companies are still scheduled to occur, non-union
employees are surely feeling very uncertain of their immediate employment future.
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From the Kansas City Star: Local
business in brief: YRC Worldwide cuts 200 non-union jobs.
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08.30.2008 - YRC Worldwide Inc.
has eliminated about 200 non-union jobs around the country amid
declining business. Bill Zollars, YRC’s chairman and chief executive,
told Bloomberg News that layoffs occurred “to make sure our
infrastructure is commensurate with business volumes.” More
at KCS
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| Report
Source(s): |
| http://socialistworker.org/2002-2/421/421_12_CF.shtml |
| http://www.myyellow.com/dynamic/services/yfsclaimfiling/claimform.jsp |
| http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=71156&p=irol-news&nyo=0 |
| http://www.yrcw.com/yrcnat/index.html |
| http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/773963.html |
