The language is deceptive. Our center has 60 Full Time Package Car drivers. All 60 will definitely be considered RPCD drivers. You are interpreting to mean that UPS will have to keep 60 RPCD positions protected. I believe that is incorrect. In our center we only have about 30 drivers who actually are working M-friend. due to the massive number of routes cut on Mondays. Read the language again.
The number of RPCDs working a Monday through Friday schedule in each building, shall be verified and agreed to by
each Local Union and the Company Labor Representative, as of August 1, 2018 and shall be protected jobs. “Protected jobs” shall
include RPCDs that will continue to be replaced by employees covered under Article 41, Section 2
The Union refuses to acknowledge if the protected jobs will only be the actual # of drivers currently working M-friend.
And then you have this misleading language.
The number of 22.4 combination drivers shall not exceed twenty-five (25%) of the total number of RPCDs in the building.
Notice how the protected jobs # is based only on the # of drivers who actually work M-friend but the 25% max of hybrid drivers is based of the total number of RPCDs .
So what you would get in a 60 driver center would be 30 protected jobs because only drivers who actually work M-friend count as protected jobs. You would get 15 Hybrid drivers based on the 25% being calculated from the TOTAL number of RPCDs in the building. (not M-friend drivers; the TOTAL # of RPCDs)
UPS would not be be required to replace 15 RPCDs in order to comply with the 25% max total. The center would end up with 45 RCPDs and 15 hybrid drivers. The center stands to lose 15 RPCD positions due to this very underhanded deceptive language.
We need clarification from the union. Hoffa/Taylor please explain if the above scenario is correct.