Monday June 15th shall be surplus announcement for Leg T CWA workers thus VTP will happen with most celebrating joyously as we collect our up to 104 weeks pay per contract laughing our fckng @$$es off! It especially will be fun to forever laugh at the nay-sayers.
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@nr how does cbre fit with abfs techs ?
26 Leg T CWA union workers in Minnesota got VTP today!
lol
The celebration has begun!
So???????
Just a reminder to the naysayers: many of us will be joyously laughing out loud as we sign our VTP papers today. How satisfying it shall be retiring with the very nice Voluntary Termination Pay.
Just a reminder that there will be no offers.
It happened and its going to continue to happen, every quarter until there is no one left.
It's only the beginning my friends.
Have you noticed your jobs drying up lately?
Well thats because OOR ABFS techs are scheduled to be outsourced to CBRE in Q3 2026. In the meantime, The once proud Deathstar is already test-driving the future by outsourcing ABFS work through a new Salesforce AI interface.
Have you noticed your workload mysteriously drying up lately? Fewer jobs, fewer dispatches, fewer opportunities?
This is why.
Apparently the long-term business strategy is: replace experienced technicians with a chatbot, outsource what's left, and then act surprised when service quality falls off a cliff.
VSP has been happening..We had 1 last year in July and 1 in April of this year...and it's going to happen again.
please surplus shreveport, got my SIPP in
VTP
@k9 happy for you if you get it, but we’ve seen dozens of these posts for years now and it still hasn’t happened. When was the last offer made? 2015 I think it was. Yeah, ancient history.
@jg It's going to happen tomorrow in the State of Hockey!
It's going to be so funny to read all the silly opinions tomorrow of those who swore up and down that VTP will never happen - now trying to rationalize and explain how and why it did happen - even though they were wrong. They'll be sp1tting nails and pulling hair out of their heads with deep jealousy wishing they never took that bootlicking job - while we VTP recipients joyously celebrate. Tomorrow will be a monumental day!
@j8 So are all the “process support” managers that are 100% useless.
@h5 so you are one of those undereducated and have no special skill overpaid people who ruined this company!
This will never happen in MN!!!
@jd Come back on here tomorrow just to see a bunch of us laughing our fckng a$$es off specifically at you. In fact, we're already laughing at you.
There will be no offers. Get over it already.
good leg t employees are saps and do nothing for the betterment of T.
Hope you all get it, but I doubt it. That’s why they allow it in the contract. Won’t happen.
@h5 Well, good luck. Don't spend it all on bass boats and trucks.
@f7 Many of us started right after high school so we're now around 50 and will be getting the bigtime payout to retire. Tomorrow shall be an exciting day for a bunch of us getting the VTP! We'll be laughing forever about collecting our VTP money, pensions and 401k money. If I had a Mazeratti, I'm sure it would do one eighty-five!
This time the T has a different meaning
If you stayed around long enough to get 104 weeks, you must be pushing 70 at least. I am not sure you have a lot to crow about still working at your age.
Have you noticed your jobs drying up lately?
Well thats because OOR ABFS techs are scheduled to be outsourced to CBRE in Q3 2026. In the meantime, The once proud Deathstar is already test-driving the future by outsourcing ABFS work through a new Salesforce AI interface.
Have you noticed your workload mysteriously drying up lately? Fewer jobs, fewer dispatches, fewer opportunities?
This is why.
Apparently the long-term business strategy is: replace experienced technicians with a chatbot, outsource what's left, and then act surprised when service quality falls off a cliff.
But don't worry—I'm sure the PowerPoint presentation says everything is going great.
It’s not the old VTP, it’s the VTP 2.0 and you won’t be happy about it
@cv like most of you are quite misinformed. As it pertains to Leg T Contract, when the VOLUNTARY Termination Package is offered on Monday only in certain GCAs, the senior techs get first dibs and after it's all done, no one is laid off. No involuntary layoffs is in this contract until 2030. They will get their 104 weeks if they started before 1984. Other techs get 50 weeks if they are 31+ years and it scales down for less time.
Involuntary layoffs affect the folks with the least seniority. You guys with 30+ years will still be not be laughing your way to the bank. You will be back on this forum crying.
@az because we’re a few days away from it happening my guy
Why do you keep on with this nonsense?
Its designed for a more senior techs to save a lower senior techs.
Helps to company it get us old techs out and new techs from the local side. less bennies.
Very limited VTP offers for NTS for LEG T will be offered. They will be be offered crew wide they will offered specifically at reporting centers for only those technicians there. They are just trimming the fat. I think the number is under 80 for the whole county. They cannot spare too lose many for a high priority position.
No involuntary layoffs for length of Leg T contract till 2030.
@a5 Yes, the most senior workers getting the VTP is exactly how it works with our contract. After the company announces surplus, that number of slots must first be offered to workers to take voluntarily and it goes by seniority as to who gets it, starting at the top. Thus the highest seniority workers get the VTP. If, for example, there were not enough volunteers, which almost never happens, it goes from the bottom of seniority to be involuntarily laid off. Involuntary termination pay is the same as voluntary termination pay and it depends on seniority. The more years the more pay - up to 104 weeks. So as you can see, it's much better to be surplussed as a union worker rather than a manager.
It would be a rare scenario that this would happen. The senior person being laid off involuntarily?
Let’s hope so!