Aug. 09, 2023, 6:55 a.m.A sign announcing Yellow Corporation's closure is posted at its Birmingham facility.Two hundred Birmingham workers are left jobless in the wake of trucking company Yellow Corporation’s abrupt shutdown across the United States.
“All workers and employers should take note of our experience with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and worry,” Darren Hawkins, Yellow’s chief executive, said in a statement Sunday. “We faced nine months of union intransigence, bullying and deliberately destructive tactics.
“Yellow benefitted from historically low labor costs compared to other freight leaders, yet they still managed to drive the company into the ground,” said Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman in a statement on Sunday. “Workers do not own that death. Yellow management must.
Yellow is a less than truckload freight shipper, which involves transporting products with smaller freight loads. Its brands, including YRC Freight, New Penn, Reddaway and Holland, provided regional, national and international shipping services to the company’s customers.