Step 1: file grievance or talk?

[twoweeled]

It's great to ascribe evil thoughts to mgmt. wherever convenient, but this is not what happens at all. Think of this like a business person. Is mgmt. really going to go light on people making $10 per hour for the opportunity to use a top rate driver on overtime? You generally lose more than that, because where a preloader will clean up a set, a driver will typically feel he or she should only help clean his/her own load.
When staffing is light in a P/T operation - it's usually due to absenteeism, plain and simple. There are exceptions, but this is the general rule.

Not sure what your referring too, but I'll take a guess. Will a sup cut a pre loader, when a higher paid driver is going to end up doing the work the lower paid pre loader could have done? Yes he will. The higher paid driver is NOT on the payrol of pre load. The driver's hours are going on package operations. The pre loader is concerned with his payrol, by keeping hours down. He will pull preloaders and sorters off as quickly as he can. His day is done! Now "hours worked" are on package operation's payrol. Yes, we all know, everything is not always done to total completion, but that is what happens.
You generally correct about the driver feeling he is only helping clean up loading.
Whatever the reason given for staffing being light, is on management. There is an OLD joke that UPS likes to use as an excuse for everything. "It's all figured in". There will always be shortcomings throughout the day when delivering, but management's response to drivers, was:
"It's all figured in".
Well that same response goes for management too. Management has to plan for those problems. Most of us know, management runs tight on staffing. Managements choice! So when more than expected sick calls come in, they cry ignorance. Staffing is the sole responsibility of management. Any shortcomings on planning, falls entirely on management. That's, "Plain and simple".

 

[twoweeled]

It's great to ascribe evil thoughts to mgmt. wherever convenient, but this is not what happens at all. Think of this like a business person. Is mgmt. really going to go light on people making $10 per hour for the opportunity to use a top rate driver on overtime? You generally lose more than that, because where a preloader will clean up a set, a driver will typically feel he or she should only help clean his/her own load.
When staffing is light in a P/T operation - it's usually due to absenteeism, plain and simple. There are exceptions, but this is the general rule.

I'm not sure what your referring too, but I'll take a guess.
Would P/T management pull the lower paid loader, only to have him replaced by a higher paid driver? Yes he would. Part time management has little if any concern with the cost associated with the higher cost driver. P/T management isn't paying his wage. The driver is on the package operation's payroll. (Depending on the size of your hub) Preload management is concerned with getting loaders and sorters off the clock. PT management is concerned with it's own payroll.
They couldn't care less about drivers. Not their problem. In theory, drivers hours can be charged to the preload, but that doesn't happened because it opens up a gigantic can of worms.
Related to this, is package operations management and preload management are hoping stupid drivers are in their cars early (working off the clock)and taking up the loading! The preload get their loaders off the clock, and package is getting free loading! Win win for management, lose lose for hourly. So yes, PT sups will take a preloader out as early as he feels he can.
You care correct, that a driver feels he is just helping clean up, unless he's one of the drivers who like to work for free.
As for staffing being light when unexpected absenteeism happens. Consider a driver is on road all day, 5 days a week. Does maybe 150-200 stops a day. COD's! Packages that look like small refrigerators. Often delivering the largest package to the apartment on the 2nd floor, in the rear of the largest apartment complex (only to find out nobody's home). Traffic accidents and construction, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Multiple excuses EVERY SINGLE DAY. Management's response to this has always been the same: "IT'S ALL FIGURED IN". Deal with it plan and adapt.
If management is short staffed, that's managements doing. It is the sole responsibility of management to staff, no one else. "IT'S ALL FIGURED IN"!! Plan better, Plain and Simple!

 

[cb1969]

Hub cut precharge/wrapup for hourlies which means sups are now doing those jobs, should I file a grievance or talk with someone first?

BOTH!!! you can withdraw the grievance if they fix, can file after 7 regular/ 5 working days....