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<blockquote data-quote="NHDRVR" data-source="post: 574540" data-attributes="member: 10327"><p>This is one of those situations that I wish was in the national contract. As long as you are in our Local, when the bids go up on Feb/Mar you bid on your route based on your seniority date. That's pretty straight forward...</p><p> </p><p>Last year our center had 4 runs that went to an earlier start time because they now had to run off the early A.M.'s since those were cut out by our center manager (a whole other story). This all happened because one driver felt these routes should have been up for bid since he wanted one of them and went to the B.A. to complain.</p><p> </p><p>Anyways...</p><p> </p><p>This particular situation was only an 'in-house' bid and not open to other centers in our Local and only the drivers affected by a 'bump' were allowed to pick a route held by a junior driver. Then, those drivers who were bumped could do the same until 3 bumps happened and then the 3rd driver is ****** out of luck.</p><p> </p><p>My point here (bored yet??) is that it is too easy for UPS to manipulate language on this when drivers careers are defined by the routes they are on. There should be clear language, somewhere, about any/every situation when a route comes up for bid.</p><p> </p><p>I heard that in Fed-Ex you have a route for life. Imagine being stuck on a Mall route for 30 years?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NHDRVR, post: 574540, member: 10327"] This is one of those situations that I wish was in the national contract. As long as you are in our Local, when the bids go up on Feb/Mar you bid on your route based on your seniority date. That's pretty straight forward... Last year our center had 4 runs that went to an earlier start time because they now had to run off the early A.M.'s since those were cut out by our center manager (a whole other story). This all happened because one driver felt these routes should have been up for bid since he wanted one of them and went to the B.A. to complain. Anyways... This particular situation was only an 'in-house' bid and not open to other centers in our Local and only the drivers affected by a 'bump' were allowed to pick a route held by a junior driver. Then, those drivers who were bumped could do the same until 3 bumps happened and then the 3rd driver is ****** out of luck. My point here (bored yet??) is that it is too easy for UPS to manipulate language on this when drivers careers are defined by the routes they are on. There should be clear language, somewhere, about any/every situation when a route comes up for bid. I heard that in Fed-Ex you have a route for life. Imagine being stuck on a Mall route for 30 years? [/QUOTE]
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