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Home » Teamsters cancel March 1 meeting with YRC to discuss change of operations
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Teamsters cancel March 1 meeting with YRC to discuss change of operations

February 13, 2012
Mark B. Solomon
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The Teamsters union and YRC Freight, the new name of the company formerly known as YRC Worldwide Inc., have canceled a March 1 meeting scheduled to discuss a company proposal to exit the short-haul business.

Tyson Johnson, head of the Teamsters' freight division, sent a communiqué to union locals on Friday announcing the cancellation. The meeting was to be held in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The letter did not address the reasons behind the cancellation or mention a revised meeting date.

YRC issued a statement through a spokeswoman that the cancellation involved nothing more than a change of meeting dates. "The company continues to work on the proposed changes" with the Teamsters, the statement said.

Earlier this month, YRC proposed to take its long-haul carriers out of the market for freight moving 500 miles or less in same-day or next-day service. The proposal would call for those shipments to be turned over to the company's three regional units: Holland, Reddaway, and New Penn. Because YRC National is a unionized carrier, the operational change would need to be approved by the Teamsters.

Ken Paff, national organizer for Teamster dissident group Teamsters for a Democratic Union, said the delay came after YRC management implemented part of the change without a "Change of Operations" plan already approved by the Teamsters.

Paff said the company began rerouting freight away from an area around Columbus, Ohio, where YRC workers are represented by Teamster Local 413. After the local complained to Teamster leadership, the March 1 meeting was canceled, according to Paff.

YRC recently changed its name to YRC Freight to reflect the exclusive focus on its core less-than-truckload (LTL) business. In mid-December, it jettisoned money-losing truckload unit YRC Glen Moore, saying it was a distraction to upper management's efforts to improve the LTL business.

Transportation Trucking Less-than-Truckload
KEYWORDS Holland New Penn Motor Express Inc. Reddaway YRC Worldwide
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Marksolomon
Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

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