Where do I begin? I am an 8 year employee with UPS and was working in ODC/Internationals. HR offered an EAM driver job to me that is part time. I asked the HR rep if I had to take a pay cut as I made $15.32/hr. She said I think you would stay at that rate and progression would take its course. I asked her to verify that. The next day she called me back and said she had spoke to center managers and others in HR and that I would stay at the $15.32 rate. So I accepted. After getting my checks I noticed that I was being paid $12.50 & $13.00 per hour depending on whether they were EAM packages or 10:30 or 12:00 committ packages. I showed my center manager and he said it looked wrong and bring to his supervisor that does payroll and he would get it fixxed and that I receive a check for backpay for underpaid hours worked which included overtime. This went back and forth for some time. After about 2 months of EAM driving, the payroll supervisor showed me a message from the main payroll site saying that $12.50 is the correct rate and the $15.32 rate has closed and no back pay would be paid. Quite naturally I was pissed since I just took a $2.82/hr paycut and was reassured up and down that $12.50 was incorrect. I decided becasue the hours were agreeable 6am till sometimes 2pm on avg til 12pm. I told the EAM supervisor that I would no longer take exception or late air, I would just do EAM and that was it as that is what I was required to do and I had another job I had to go to since I was only making $12.50/hr now. That same week or the next, they laid me off from EAM driving saying another center laid off 2 people and they bumped me out because I was the lowest senior person. (Retaliation Maybe?) 2 weeks later, I went back to work inside the hub on the twilight shift. I had to go unload on the metro as my ODC job had been filled. I thought since I was back in the building I would be making my old rate of $15.32/hr but it seems I am still making $12.50/hr. One steward I talked to regarding the air driver pay said I should have known better and that they can tell me whatever they want to and I had no recourse because of the contract. So I ate the $1000 in back pay that I was assured I would receive when my pay was fixxed and took it as a lesson learned. It would also seem to me that I am stuck with the $12.50/hr on the twilight shift. I have been unable to locate a steward to take this issue with. I have worked my ass off for 8 years to get to $15.32/hr. I feel like I was an hourly part-timer who started making too much and was conned into accepting a lower paid job only to have it taken away and put back into a worse job on the same crappy shift with a $2.82 pay cut. Was I a victim of bad union representation? Do I have any recourse or hope with any of the situations I outlined above? Doing full time driving is not an option. I just had my 1st baby and whatever the pay is for a driver is not worth the lost time with my family. Not to mention it is 115 - 120 degrees in the summer and I imagine that package cars get to be 130 - 140.
I work out of the Tempe, AZ hub. I don't know much about how the union works and there are no resources to find a steward. Any help on anything mentioned would be great.
At this point I feel like I have wasted 8 years of my life and am considering quitting if I am stuck at $12.50/hr I also think that $4000 in union dues has been a waste as well if I can't get represntation or a wrong righted.
Char
I work out of the Tempe, AZ hub. I don't know much about how the union works and there are no resources to find a steward. Any help on anything mentioned would be great.
At this point I feel like I have wasted 8 years of my life and am considering quitting if I am stuck at $12.50/hr I also think that $4000 in union dues has been a waste as well if I can't get represntation or a wrong righted.
Char