Here they just default to seniority since there is no language in the southern specifically addressing that issue. The grievance that was supposed to stop it failed. And the explanation does make sense. If RPCDs were literally bumping them out of working Saturdays at all then that would be a legit complaint.
I appreciate your response. I don’t work Saturday except select December dates. Out here I think they only run air/international and select routes.
Same thing here. My last route used to be a M-Friday and then after some odd years of Saturday delivery they started cutting it dispatching half of it on Saturday and then come Monday they spread it out to 3-4 routes. I again agree with you, since those routes on Saturday have the same footprint every time and are in every Saturday they should be up for a bid.On Saturdays there are no bid routes. Everyone is unassigned. But my center has quite a few routes that could easily be moved to Tuesday-Saturday because they are essentially like that already. The local (Our BA anyway) said hell no we're not bidding any routes like that. But there were quite a few people interested. I mean they are cut on Mondays and always in on Saturday so it would make sense. Sometimes the union's decisions are just as bad as the company's.
I heard a center manager once tell a disgruntled employee years ago that “every position in the pre-load is considered one job and to work accordingly or drop and application at McDonalds” hahahaha
Yes I am looking for relevant responses and not what a chain reaction looks like for blind drivers or whatever profound insight you had. Like that other dude, you have no frame of reference here. I just wanted to know how its handled elsewhere and or other parts of the southern region. If I see no language in the contract stating otherwise and our center has been operating based on seniority for years especially when it comes to bumping. I have seen them make up rules as they go and different rules for different people. im just looking for clarification. Im not the one volunteering on Saturday nor do I have any interest too. I honor seniority and the company needs to as well.
Which is why everyone on the preload received the extra $1/hr.
Those affected don’t lose anything in regards to pay or daily guarantee. Seniority should rule regardless of “double jeopardy” nonsense. I could chose to move to Tuesday-Saturday and could/should potentially be bumped off a Saturday route by a higher seniority extra work Monday-Friday driver. And wouldn’t throw a fit about it. Either we have seniority or we don’t.
If you are a Tuesday through Saturday driver
That would NOT be a 6th day, or extra work under that scenario?
1st there is no such thing as a Volunteer. If they don’t have enough Tuesday thru Saturday drivers for Saturday my seniority gives me the right to work if they need Monday thru Friday drivers if I want to work. At my center Saturday routes aren’t bid routes. They are several Monday thru Friday routes combined to make a Saturday route.
The Tue-Sat driver isn’t losing anything by being outbid for a route by a driver with more SENIORITY. They get over it and select another using their seniority. So says our BA/Local.
When you agree to work a Saturday as a Monday thru Friday driver, it is extra work you are "volunteering".
Seniority
I believe in Seniority, when all things are equal,....it's reasonable.
So you are volunteering to work, got it
The contract says SENIORITY shall prevail. Not “equality.” Grievances and temper tantrums be damned.
What you’ve highlighted stops a senior sixth punch driver from bumping a Tues-Sat driver out of work completely on a Saturday. But doesn’t nullify the senior driver’s ability to select a route before them. No Mon-Fri driver has ever caused a Tue-Sat driver to go home on a Saturday in my center.
Nope my seniority gives me the right to work before less seniority Monday thru Friday drivers work and I still have 9/5 protection on that 6th day.
