Make sure you run out of hours.
It’s so simple.
Every single year. Same thing.
It’s peak and they need help. Best advice is to go in early and work what you can until you have to bail.
What?!? Thats's job abandonment. Call out instead.
Already at 70 hour rule here. Someone in their glass mansion approved it, in all their glory.
You played that all wrong. First off why are you taking calls from management on your cell phone, during duty hours, or off duty? Second off screw that, if I was in a local where it was forced and I was in a giving, caring mood I still show up. Oh you don’t need me, where’s the broom closet. Guess I’m sweeping today.
That’s what I’m talking about. Where is the broom closet located? All members need to step up and demand the hours they are due. If they force a sixth bunch and you show up demand the hours you are contractually guaranteed.
Are you guys with no forced 6th day getting double time for coming in on the 6th day?
They are forced. He's just calling in fatigued. It's a big difference.
I’m not in package anymore, I’m in feeders. 7 day operation. Saturday is time and a half, Sunday is double time. Top-down seniority gets to work. In package it was time and a half for Saturday or double time. I don’t remember. Could’ve been double time.
Stealing work from Union Porters?
Nope, I wish we had Union Porters here. Unfortunately we do not. What we do have, like many places, is a bunch of part timers doing full time work year round. That is something that needs to be worked on by the IBT and the Joint Councils is to get better language into the National and Supplements to force the company into creating more full time 22.2 and 22.3 jobs. Right now the company is also stripping all of the O/T from every full time RPCD job and giving the majority of the work to non seniority employees working less than eight hours, most of it is going to PVDs working around 4ish hours. It’s sickening to me the number of full time members that are consistently working under 8s and the amount of part time employees working over 40 hours weekly. The other neat thing they are trying is to force every RPCD, from the top of the list to the bottom, in on Saturday, when they aren’t even giving the 22.4s eight hours. 5 day workweeks and mandatory 8 hour pay guarantees for full time employees are my two biggest sticking points for our contracts coming up. It’s seems like it’s always feast or famine for the package drivers and a lot of the inside employees in my local.
