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Yellow Trucking Co. to Shut Down, Costing 30,000 People Their Jobs

HeadlineAug 02, 2023

In other labor news, the trucking company Yellow is shutting down and will reportedly file for bankruptcy. Thirty thousand people could lose their jobs. The president of the Teamsters, which represents over two-thirds of Yellow workers, said, “Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government.” Yellow received $700 million from the government in a pandemic-era bailout, despite the company facing a lawsuit from the Justice Department for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

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