Cover drivers cover routes. They don't get laid off when there is no full time work, they just don't get used.
we're considered "laid off"... whole slew of us cover drivers told by management we are "LAID OFF". what sucks is when a center dissolves routes and then (AB)uses cover drivers as helpers, take for instance an extremely large shopping mall where 1 or sometimes 2 full-time drivers have as their route, are told by management: "we are dissolving driver x's route and adding his/her WHOLE route to your mall route,
BUT since you have 2 helpers, you will take your p-12 and do driver x's route whilst your 2 helpers (laid-off cover drivers) do your WHOLE mall route (pickups, CODs, high-vals, etc.)"
UPS loophole??? abusing the system??? grievable??? just shows how dirty management is!!! this is happening at our center! and all the cover drivers being AB(used) as helpers are doing every single thing a Full-Time driver is doing but at a measely $9.50 an hour. just an absolute slap-in-the-face!
also, many of our 50+ year old package drivers just getting simply hammered by the EDD system. what would be considered grossly over-dispatched pre-EDD, EDD is now calling "in the gray"... or as UPS puts it, "just right".... well, guess UPS doesn't mind paying the loads of top-rate OT............
could employee moral at UPS be any higher????? LOL