Something like this is currently going on with me. I had another bid route for the last 4 years and recently bid to another route in our biannual bid process. 3 weeks ago I was ripped from my old route and thrown on my new one. Now the last two days I have been forced to run my old route because the new driver has been sick. I am not happy about it, one bit.
My biggest problem with it is that over the 4 years that i had the route only part time cover drivers covered the route when I was off. Never once was a bid route driver pulled off their route to run it. But now all of a sudden they find it acceptable to move me off my new route to fill the gaps. In our Supplemental Agreement we have this language built in:
In the event of an emergency or possible service delay, the Company may temporarily reassign the driver another area within the center but it is the Company’s intention that the cover drivers or junior drivers will cover runs unless desired by a senior employee. Full- Time bid package car drivers cannot be forced from their bid route more than seven (7) days per year. Forced shall not include a mutual agree- ment or when a bid area is temporarily eliminated.
Now my management team is trying to play games and say that they have until the end of April to "assign" me to my new route. But myself and three stewards are in agreement that they already "assigned" me to my new route three weeks ago when they moved me and trained me on the new one. So in return I told them, fine, but don't expect me to be in a hurry to get this route done. And then expect me to file 9.5 grievances on top of it. Either way a grievance will be given out of this, if not two.
their eyeballs out. Bet they won't move him again.
