The nonunion Arrow faces a class action lawsuit by its employees for violating the WARN Act, a federal law (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) that requires employers with at least 100 employees to give 60 days’ notice before a plant closing or mass layoff.
More information on how to help can be found on Rhianna Weir’s blog. He would have had no money for food or shelter.” “John only worked for them for about a month. “Arrow bounced John’s last two paychecks and cut off all advances in the week prior to the shutdown,” said Marie AuBuchon. According to Tulsa World, Eischens called his mother and asked her for a bus ticket home. Currently this page is working to locate a missing driver, John M. Others in the trucking community set up “Arrow Trucking Volunteer Efforts” on Facebook. It also set up a special Frequently Asked Questions page on its web site. On Facebook, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, OOIDA, set up a page called “Support for Stranded Arrow Trucking Drivers – Coordinate Efforts HERE.” With its 7,550-plus fans, the organization began mobilizing help, providing job information and updates on the Arrow Trucking situation.
Some found out when they stopped for fuel and their fuel cards weren’t accepted.Įventually, a couple of larger freight companies, some of them financial backers of Arrow, told drivers that if they could get to their terminals they’d receive either $200 or bus fare home.īut that help may have been due to a tremendous grassroots effort using the Internet and social media to help the abandoned and stranded Arrow drivers get home. Some drivers found out through the Internet or radio. The company, based in Tulsa, Okla., did not notify any of its workers that it was shutting down. Their employer, Arrow Trucking, suspended its operations, leaving them high and dry just before the holiday.
It was days before Christmas when 1,400 truck drivers got the news.
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