Not in my local but in my local the guy who actually writes the language is the principal officer. So I guess that's why ups actually follows the contract. Another reason I love being in the local I'm in. Great dudes.
If ups disqualifies you in the central region and there's another bid in three months you don't have to wait another year FYI.
Local language, not Central Region Supplement language. One year in the Central Region Supplement.
Good for your local for having better language than the Supplement.
I don't think UPS is going to purposely disqualify someone for an error that was corrected. It would be of no benefit to them to hold a grudge over this member. They could train this driver with a little influence from the local and do the right thing. If talking doesn't move UPS to do the right thing, then a grievance is necessary. Is UPS in a tough spot?, yes, and so is the employee who's seniority is being denied.
To UPS, this would be too much work. They will then have to hear grievances from the other drivers that qualified and had this guy move ahead of them. I know it should be this way, but to UPS, the easiest way is the easiest.
UPS has another easy way to deal with this. OP files grievance, walks into the hearing, UPS claims point of order, untimely grievance.
The OP was denied driver training. He has 5 days per the contract to grieve it. More than a month and it still is not grieved.
This is why every building needs a good Steward. This should have already been grieved.
If I was the member I would grieve the back seniority after qualifying. We had a case like this and that's how it played out.
What were the facts? Say 3 other drivers already qualified. John Doe starts 6 months later, but should have started before the other 3. His seniority date is the first day he started driving, or the first day of school, whichever. Not the date he won the bid for driver training. How can he grieve his seniority date to be 6 months earlier.
I think he got lucky on this and the parties involved did the right thing and it will probably never happen again.
Honest mistakes happen.
How you resolve them, shows the character of the parties.
If the facts are correct.... a backdated seniority date, would be appropriate.
True. But UPS has no character.
Although it sounds like they did this at least once per Lead Belly.
I am in central too. DQ means waiting a year.
Correct.
he guy in my building has told others, "If you are close to signing a bid, go to the DMV and pull your own driving record. Correct any errors before it gets to bid signing time."
Great advice.