New Video! Contract Ratified! Now Prepare for the Storm!
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Commercial Inside Release
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Also, don't know where you get management that actually would ever do anything physical. Around here if management ever had to run a 6-hour route, they were still crying about it three weeks later, or still expecting a pat on the back.
Thebrownblob
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There’s no other options? There’s plenty, they could hire for one or how about not lay them off so you don’t have to file a grievance on them working in car wash?
PT Car Washer
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There have been grievances filed for air drivers delivering ground packages or pick ups. They lost because there were no other options for making service.
I have NOT been lurking
Eat. Sleep. Work. Jork.
What'dyabringmetoday???
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Obvious option- hire more full-time drivers. I'm sure you've gone to the union with this idea? Lol!
dudebro
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FWIW, this was my experience. When I worked at the airport, we'd get ground misloads (from PHL).
We forwarded the packages to the preload with air drivers to service them on time. Often, they'd say "I can't take this I'm an air driver" and the response was always, "You CAN, provided we pay you top ground rate.".
That was what we did. It was a better business-decision than domiciling a ground driver with 8 hours to fill out of the airport, or paying a bunch of ground drivers a round trip out of their home building.
When the grievances went to panel, arbitrators generally ruled that the language to handle that situation was right there in the contract, so was not a violation so long as the driver was paid.
We forwarded the packages to the preload with air drivers to service them on time. Often, they'd say "I can't take this I'm an air driver" and the response was always, "You CAN, provided we pay you top ground rate.".
That was what we did. It was a better business-decision than domiciling a ground driver with 8 hours to fill out of the airport, or paying a bunch of ground drivers a round trip out of their home building.
When the grievances went to panel, arbitrators generally ruled that the language to handle that situation was right there in the contract, so was not a violation so long as the driver was paid.
That's an exception.
Nobody has a problem with that.
But when you use air drivers to run a grind route on a continuous bases then that's a staffing issue.
Thebrownblob
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We in the central can bring the truck back and we have been able to for quite some time.
I was ready to do that today and I didn't even have an 8 hour request
rod
Retired 23 years
Have I told you lately how tough we had it? Bring the truck back with stops still in it? Damn you all have it easy now days.
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
Land mine!!!
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
RoswellHub
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The rest of the world is jealous.
Thebrownblob
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I’m sure I’ve said that on here before but most people are too chicken to do it. Either they think they’re going to be targeted, or the work will just be on their truck tomorrow.
catstalking
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it's bad dispatchers is what it is
No it's improper staffing
It says company big money by not paying full-time pension to air drivers to be ground work
catstalking
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no it's literally just bad dispatching
I've seen it a billion times and I've done it myself; dispatchers don't give a flying
what the staffing situation looks like, if they have 20 stops that they just can't fit into the plan (in a smart way) then they take the easy way out and dump it on a PSPThis place is so stupid I don't care anymoreno it's literally just bad dispatching
I've seen it a billion times and I've done it myself; dispatchers don't give a flying
