Mismanagement of Central States Fund will make you work into you are the ripe age of 80. The leadership of our Union has failed us again. 3 billion in losses is the tip of the iceberg! What this means to you and your family is more than just a few years left to retire. Who will send you the that pension check? This is why it’s so important to take this contract seriously, because it starts with the fund and ends with contract that is suitable for us all. The Teamsters are at the verge of Bankruptcy if this fund doesn’t do better in the free market. Three billion dollars is a lot of cash to gamble in the times we live in. They might be waiting to see if the government will bail them out too. This is very concerning and the $109 a week per man will not salvage this debacle. They will need thousand of drivers to be hired and fired and never meet the five year vested period, to maintain the fund. Not only in our industry, but in freight too. Read some of the language in that grand freight contact, those poor guys got. Hoffa came out of his XXL boxers when that was ratified! Ask them guys about the best contract ever. How can that happen you may ask? Let this new contract be anything like the last, and we will all be doomed. Read the language of the last contract and match it with the new one, and base your decision on what would you do if you had a 3 billion dollar deficit on your watch. 

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