I won the bid for feeders. Human resources gave all 17 of us 4 weeks to get our permits or we would be skipped. My BA came gave us a PCM and said get your permits or you will be skipped. I along with 3 others got our permits before the deadline.. We were scheduled for class.. Now 4 guys with more seniority got their permits way past the deadline.. The union is allowing them to bump us out of class. Do I have a grievance?? Thanks n advance
That depends. If all 17 are to be trained, it sounds like you will also be trained. Maybe not on the first class, but possibly the next one.
I am assuming all 17 of you are FT right now, so it most likely will not matter if you are the first one trained or the fifth one trained.
You keep your same FT seniority date.
The only time this may matter is if they trained one of these guys first, and they qualified, and got to bid a feeder job that you could have bid on if these guys were trained after you.
If all 17 get trained before anyone can bid a feeder job, it is a mute point unless you want all these other guys disqualified from school and have them replaced with people with less seniority than you.
This is not going to happen.
You did have a small chance to win this if UPS made the decision. But it sounds like your local made the decision.
Any grievance you file will be point of order. "The local agreed to letting them be trained." Grievance denied.