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<blockquote data-quote="hondo" data-source="post: 2641270" data-attributes="member: 8661">[USER=65141]@gio16[/USER] : Vacation time off should be selected (&quot;bid&quot;) in seniority order during a certain time period of the year. The bidding process should be spelled out somewhere in your union contract supplement. I recommend you get a copy of your particular contract and read it and/or talk to your union shop steward (or call your union hall/business office if need be). Where I am (and this is just an example, it may not be like this where you are), vacation weeks for 2018 are picked in November 2017; they go down the applicable seniority list, with 25% of employees picking per week. If you want to take off this October, it may still be possible, but you need to know what your particular contract supplement says. Also, in some parts of the country you might also get an &quot;option week&quot;, which is a second week of vacation time you have the option of taking off or not taking the time off and still collecting that pay, some areas have additional choices-that&#039;s why it&#039;s important to get your particular contract supplement. VERY IMPORTANT: the calendar they use refers to weeks by the Saturday (last day) of that week. So if you wanted the second week of October &#039;17 off (the 8th to the 14th, Sun. to Sat.), look for the &quot;week ending Oct. 14&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hondo, post: 2641270, member: 8661"] [USER=65141]@gio16[/USER] : Vacation time off should be selected ("bid") in seniority order during a certain time period of the year. The bidding process should be spelled out somewhere in your union contract supplement. I recommend you get a copy of your particular contract and read it and/or talk to your union shop steward (or call your union hall/business office if need be). Where I am (and this is just an example, it may not be like this where you are), vacation weeks for 2018 are picked in November 2017; they go down the applicable seniority list, with 25% of employees picking per week. If you want to take off this October, it may still be possible, but you need to know what your particular contract supplement says. Also, in some parts of the country you might also get an "option week", which is a second week of vacation time you have the option of taking off or not taking the time off and still collecting that pay, some areas have additional choices-that's why it's important to get your particular contract supplement. [B]VERY IMPORTANT[/B]: the calendar they use refers to weeks by the Saturday (last day) of that week. So if you wanted the second week of October '17 off (the 8th to the 14th, Sun. to Sat.), look for the "week ending Oct. 14". [/QUOTE]

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