Boston25
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He sucks at doing anything at UPS.
Local 25 Teamsters borderline criminal act?
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Bubblehead
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So what was the final resolution/solution to the seasonal dues issue?
Rick Ross
I'm into distribution!!
Here's my guess... This rug looks just like the one at my local, but is much smaller than the rug Hoffa and Taylor use in Washington.
thumper650
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Is this true of seasonal feeder drivers? Are they offered another permanent position if not?
BottomFeeder909
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You have no chance becoming a full time Feeder Driver!
RolloTony Brown Town
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feeder drivers aren’t being offered ft Permanent positions in the northeast unless it’s a very rare situation.
thumper650
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Thanks for the encouragement, but that didn't answer my question.
thumper650
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Understood, but do they offer those drivers any position, assuming they do a good job.
Bubblehead
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As a feeder driver, how would you go about differentiating yourself from the others, in doing "a good job"???
thumper650
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Same way I would in any other trucking job. Don't be a dick and don't hit anything.
Bubblehead
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....yet you're still looking for a job???
thumper650
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Just say you can't answer my question and move on.
RolloTony Brown Town
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Casuals don’t have any seniority so only the best performing employees would get a job offer if there was one to give.
These are very rare situations. Good luck.
thumper650
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Thanks!
Sweeper
Where’s the broom?
If you don’t get on as a friend/T seniority driver after being a casual, which is likely based on recent hiring practices. With the new NE Feeder TCD (Temporary Cover Driver) language I’d try to work your way up from inside. Here’s how that process should work.
If you’ve got the time to invest get on P/T in the local and if possible in the specific building that you want to work out of. You don’t only have to look at how close it is to you geographically but also how many feeder jobs are out of that building. Generally more jobs means more possibilities to work as a Feeder TCD.
Once you make P/T seniority put your name on the feeder TCD list. If you’re already qualified as a casual I’d think there would be no additional training needed. Once on that list you get work friend/T hours in the feeder department, on a week to week basis, over any casuals, in that building, during the free period. If there is no work for you as a feeder TCD you’d be placed back on your P/T shift.
At that point the next step would be to qualify as a 22.4 and gain friend/T seniority, you’d be doing this in order to obtain a friend/T seniority date. This friend/T date stays with you for the rest of your career within your local. The friend/T date is used to bid on jobs and select vacations, in all classifications, as long as you don’t quit.
Now you’re a seniority friend/T employee and should ask to have your name added to the friend/T TTQ, Full Time Tractor Trailer Qualified, list. Again there shouldn’t be any additional training needed.
Once you on the TTQ list you get work when they need drivers year round in feeders based on your seniority date. You should get preference over any TCDs and casuals working in the feeder department local wide.
The next step is to win a feeder bid posted between biennial bids this would secure a spot for you in feeders until the next biennial bid.
At this point you’d be bidding on jobs just like every other friend/T employee.
Hope that helps to understand some of your options.
thumper650
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