When you say sent back and going back that means they were once pt preload ? But what about the other clerks who were never pt, never preload ? Many clerks came from fulltime driving. Like myself I was a full time driver right from day one. The if the way ups is send send you back where you came from as in preload. Then that would mean fulltime drivers that became clerks would and should go back driving ? And no we came here to clerks on a bid sheet. Not on an injury. Still have the same license and current dot card. So you can drive their pkg cars for almost 25 yrs and all of a sudden you can't ??? I can see sending the ones that were pt back to pt, but ft to pt no way. If you came from full time then should be back to full time.
Article 13, Section 9- Reduction of Staff- Full-Time Seniority Employees
1. Package Centers- Outside
(1) Within each center drivers will be laid off on the basis of Company seniority.
(2) A laid-off driver will be offered work in another
center within their building where the
least senior driver is working without the loss of a day's pay.
(3) Where a driver is working less than the basic workweek, and where there is no work available within the building pursuant to above, the driver may request a transfer to another center in the driver's
area where the driver with the
least Company seniority is working.
If there is no work available in the driver's area, the driver may request a transfer to another center where the driver with the least Compant seniority in their
district is working. If there is no work available in the driver's district, the driver may request a transfer to another center where the driver with the least Company seniority in the Union's
jurisdiction is working.
3. Package Center Clericals
(1) Employees will be laid off on the basis of Company seniority within the employee's area. If there is no work available in the employee's
area, the employee may request a transfer to another center where the package center clerical employee with the least Company seniority in the Union's jurisdiction is working.
(2) Employees in the General Operation Clerk and Customer Counter Clerk Classifications will be laid off on the basis of Company seniority within the employee's
area. If there is no work available in the employee's area, the employee may request a transfer to another center where the clerical employee in the same
classification, with the least Company seniority, in the Union's jurisdiction, is working.
9. Requests for transfers from centers to areas will be affected
no sooner than 36 hours after the request. Requests for transfers from the areas to Union jurisdiction will be affected
no sooner than 5 working days after the request. The Company agrees to waive the foregoing notices and to process requests sooner than 36 hours or 5 working days respectively where possible. In those cases the Union agrees to waive all claims which might result from such transfers.
11. In the event an employee elects
not to accept or request a transfer, the employee may nonetheless elect to
take the layoff ( in which event the employee shall be considered a laid-off employee for lack of work for the purpose of unemployment compensation) or to take the work of a
part-time employee, if any, for the duration of the lay-off. Such right may be exercised with respect to those part-time jobs which have the greatest number of scheduled hours in the employee's center. Any employee who selects a permament job performed by a part-time employee shall be paid at his/her
regular rate in addition to all fringe benefits, rather than at the part-time rate, with a minimum guarantee of
4 1/2 hours. In the event the employee works more than 5 hours in any shift, the employee shall be guaranteed 8 hours work or pay at such regular rate.
MATT H......
