Missing the $0.12 COLA! When does it kick in?

[xaero001]

i'm a PT insider/Air-Cover Driver and in this weeks check I noticed the $0.425 raise but not the $0.12 COLA that I thought would be in there.... Any ideas why? Is Upstate NY not getting this?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We did not get the Aug. 1st raise but did get the COLA raise.

 

[xaero001]

You sure? Full timers Voted on sched E with loss of Raises till next contract, Part timers voted on sched C to keep raises but move retirement to 63 or 65

 

[hondo]

Either:

• You're not seeing it on your pay because it's been diverted towards your benefits.
• You're still in progression, and won't get it until you've completed progression.
• It's a mistake.

Check your union bulletin board @ work for any relevant postings, or with your steward or union business agent/rep.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Our contractual raises are being diverted but we got our COLA raise.

 

[xaero001]

I just double checked with the Local Sort shift I'm with when not air/cover driving and they also got the $0.425 but not $0.12.
Will have to check with steward but he never got the paperwork other stewards got about any sorta of a Cola.

 

[hondo]

Is your seniority date before July 31, 2007?

 

[xaero001]

Nope my seniority date was Oct 12, 2007, I hit the old contract when the benefits were quick and my inside pay is based off that contract. Driver wise I didn't touch a package car till 2008 and am on the new contract Air/Cover Guidelines for that.

 

[hondo]

Nope my seniority date was Oct 12, 2007, I hit the old contract when the benefits were quick and my inside pay is based off that contract. Driver wise I didn't touch a package car till 2008 and am on the new contract Air/Cover Guidelines for that.

Well then, as I read the COLA language, you might get the $0.12 on or about Oct. 12, 2011 (assuming that the schedule C you referenced provides that it does go towards your pay, and not benefits) for your Local Sort work. Article 22.5 a & b are a masterpiece of contrived, confusing language.
The $0.12 should apply to your Air/Cover rates on the date you complete those progressions.

 

[xaero001]

Excellent! Thanks for interpreting that for me as it really is a "Masterpiece of contrived, confusing language" - Hondo

 

[JonFrum]

And to further confuse things, the inside part-time progression takes five years to complete (not four as just about everyone assumes from reading the deliberately misleading contract language.) So you would have to have a seniority date of July 31, 2006 or earlier to be eligible for the August 1, 2011 12-cent COLA.

 

[brownmonster]

A cola raise? That's 3$ take home I wasn't planning on. Hooray!

 

[brownrod]

Last week my hourly wage was 30.83. On this weeks paycheck it is 31.62. Why did I get so much???? Hope it's not a mistake I have to pay back. A coworker told me he went up to 30.91 and that we voted our raise into pension... I'm confused.

 

[menotyou]

5 years for PTers? Where? When I went FT in 09', it was 3.

 

[mike1646]

We are at $30.91 with the cola

 

[menotyou]

Last week my hourly wage was 30.83. On this weeks paycheck it is 31.62. Why did I get so much???? Hope it's not a mistake I have to pay back. A coworker told me he went up to 30.91 and that we voted our raise into pension... I'm confused.

Shhhh!

 

[TheKid]

I got both . . . .I guess someone up there likes me.

 

[brownmonster]

$31.06

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

$29.77 Raises diverted to pension fund--I was surprised that we got the COLA.

 

[EmerCond421]

We are at $30.91 with the cola

Same here.