Well, he called and said,
you better sit down.
That's bad news, and I thought
he'd been in Iraq or something and
he told me I didn't say
much to him. I hung phone up and I
was just stunned.
Peggy and DeWitt Coaker say they're not
sure what to do now.
The wind has been working for red ball
trucking for 18 years, earning
union wages of more than thirteen dollars
an hour.
Yesterday, that came to an abrupt halt
with all presume that would go to 15
percent of
wage round, that
we would manage to survive.
And then the whip drove short hauls
and worked on the loading dock at Specter
Red Ball. Now he'll be one of 400
union employees looking for work.
They're going to be so many of us out of
a job that the other great
lines that are managing to survive,
there's not going to be enough
jobs to cover everybody.
Rumors have the wit.
And Peggy worried company officials
can't be reached and talk among workers
is that insurance claims won't be
honored, that pay will be short
and last week's paychecks are no good.
It's worrying me.
It really is, because it means
that I'll have to go back
to work, I'm sure.
Specter red ball officials say a slow
economy forced them to close.
Union officials are blaming it on
deregulation.
But for David Coaker, this business
represents 18 years of hard work.
Now he may have to rely on a lower paying
nonunion job to make ends meet.
Jane Boone, Channel 5, Action News, Dallas.