Monday Layoffs

[iruhnman630]

If you’re high seniority you should be able to follow your work. But if they sent me to another center they would be very sorry.

100% trace, full 1 hour break, and an early message to the center letting them know you will have missed business.

If this is to be their plan going forward, I say make it hurt.

 

[iruhnman630]

I rarely take the day myself

My favorite days on the job were always the days I could turn around and walk back out the door

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

My favorite days on the job were always the days I could turn around and walk back out the door

I usually only take dead days during Christmas week.

 

[iruhnman630]

If you follow your work on Monday and work as safely as you possible can...you will never be asked to do it again.

Make it hurt.

This is their Monday plan going forward, so make it hurt.

 

[nWo]

Calling off is always an option.

 

[Fido]

If it’s like our center then there’s no point in questioning because most of the lower seniority might be laid off to work Tuesday-Saturday. You could bump possibly because your route is cut? Not sure how your local sees that.

 

[ManInBrown]

Correct, seniority gives you the right to work, not the right to not work. That being said with your seniority they should allow you to take layoff, especially with your route being cut. It’s a slippery subject. It came up many times when I was in package with other drivers.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Ummmmmm. This is what we do everyday...

Seems like that should be every day. It is for me.

 

[WorknLateHuh]

The dispatch supervisor is usually the last person in my building I go to for contract-related questions.

I don't think the dispatch sup even knows there's a union at UPS let alone any kind of contract...

 

[nWo]

You signed up to work 5 days a week. Man up and work 5 days a week. Or call off. Or just retire already.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

You signed up to work 5 days a week. Man up and work 5 days a week. Or call off. Or just retire already.

Who was you trying to quote?

 

[bottomups]

You signed up to work 5 days a week. Man up and work 5 days a week. Or call off. Or just retire already.

Highly recommend retirement. Hard to beat it.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Highly recommend retirement. Hard to beat it.

How do you even qualify retirement with being on comp all that time for doing a baby job

 

[Poop Head]

How do you even qualify retirement with being on comp all that time for doing a baby job

One punch a week, full contributions.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

One punch a week, full contributions.

How on Earth do you get on disability or comp with a 22.2 job?

Sounds like a complete milker to me

 

[Poop Head]

How on Earth do you get on disability or comp with a 22.2 job?

Sounds like a complete milker to me

Trying to lift a garbage bag full of pee bottles out of the garbage can?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Trying to lift a garbage bag full of pee bottles out of the garbage can?

Perhaps

 

[RMR46]

Monday layoffs? I look forward to them but I make sure I call before I get there that will have to go in and go back home

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

I know a few high seniority drivers who specifically bid on routes that get cut on Mondays. Management lets them just not show up.

 

[tourists24]

The reason we say that is because there is no wording in the contract that says you get to bump or use your seniority in order to not work. Such as what you are asking. But there is specific wording pertaining to being told you can not work. You will have to check with your steward to see if your center/building uses past practice for this issue.

The Atlantic Supplement has language that says you can take a voluntary layoff day before they lay off from the bottom up; or at least in my center that is how the language has been interpreted.