A confrontation between the Teamsters union and Yellow that culminated in the trucker’s collapse is escalating as the company winds down in bankruptcy.
Yellow executives and union officials in a series of harsh exchanges are blaming each other for the demise of the 99-year-old carrier and the loss of 30,000 jobs, about 22,000 of them Teamsters members. The conflict threatens to spill into Yellow’s bankruptcy court proceedings and affect the union’s organizing efforts at other companies.
Yellow Chief Restructuring Officer Matthew Doheny, who until July 27 was Yellow’s chairman, wrote in a Monday bankruptcy court filing that Teamsters President Sean O’Brien and the union “knowingly and intentionally triggered a death spiral for Yellow” and that a strike threat in July, two weeks before the company shut down, “was intended to put Yellow out of business.”
Yellow Chief Executive Darren Hawkins said in announcing the bankruptcy filing that other companies and employees should “take note” of Yellow’s experience, saying the trucker collapsed after a nine-month campaign marked by “union intransigence, bullying and deliberately destructive tactics.”
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