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<blockquote data-quote="Old International" data-source="post: 1066735" data-attributes="member: 14916"><p>Seniority by craft only makes sense if you don't plan to bounce back and forth between crafts. In SC, your company time is only good for vacations and retirement. We choose bids by length of time in job class- IE full time verses part time. It makes for some strange bid lists.</p><p>For example- I was hired 2 years before my coworker, but I spent 3 years as a PT clerk(then went full time package). My coworker was hired off the street, as a package car driver. He became a feeder coverage driver(did both package and feeders, as needed to cover vacations, days off.....). When a full time feeder job came open, he bid for the job, as there was no one else that could do the job. I then went to feeder school, to cover both feeder jobs. I finally went feeders full time, as the junior man, and another driver was promoted to the job of feeder coverage. Sounds pretty straight forward, huh?</p><p>Now it get complicated. Because I was hired before my coworker, I bid my vacations before him. The feeder coverage driver ALSO bids his vacations before my coworker, as he was hired only 2 months after me. But, when it comes to the 6 month bid time, my coworker bids before me, as he has more fulltime seniority then I do. And, it has even gotten worse. Another package driver went to feeder school just 6 months ago, but he has more company and full time seniority then the 3 of us. However, since there is not a full time run open, all he can do is bid the coverage work as it comes up. If another run should open up, he will get it, work the new run till the next bid, then bid his seniority in feeders, while the poor guy that has been doing coverage for the last 7 years gets to STILL do coverage.... How fair is that?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Clear as mud?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old International, post: 1066735, member: 14916"] Seniority by craft only makes sense if you don't plan to bounce back and forth between crafts. In SC, your company time is only good for vacations and retirement. We choose bids by length of time in job class- IE full time verses part time. It makes for some strange bid lists. For example- I was hired 2 years before my coworker, but I spent 3 years as a PT clerk(then went full time package). My coworker was hired off the street, as a package car driver. He became a feeder coverage driver(did both package and feeders, as needed to cover vacations, days off.....). When a full time feeder job came open, he bid for the job, as there was no one else that could do the job. I then went to feeder school, to cover both feeder jobs. I finally went feeders full time, as the junior man, and another driver was promoted to the job of feeder coverage. Sounds pretty straight forward, huh? Now it get complicated. Because I was hired before my coworker, I bid my vacations before him. The feeder coverage driver ALSO bids his vacations before my coworker, as he was hired only 2 months after me. But, when it comes to the 6 month bid time, my coworker bids before me, as he has more fulltime seniority then I do. And, it has even gotten worse. Another package driver went to feeder school just 6 months ago, but he has more company and full time seniority then the 3 of us. However, since there is not a full time run open, all he can do is bid the coverage work as it comes up. If another run should open up, he will get it, work the new run till the next bid, then bid his seniority in feeders, while the poor guy that has been doing coverage for the last 7 years gets to STILL do coverage.... How fair is that? Clear as mud? [/QUOTE]
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