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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1224760" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>728, I'll take your challenge:</p><p></p><p>In article 37 of the master it makes mention of the oft-quoted "fair days work for fair days pay", and we shall perform our duties in a way "in the best interests of the Employer". How do they determine their interests? Through the driver methods we are all trained in. What does SPORH have to do with those? The OJS measures your SPORH with someone observing you doing the methods, making suggestions/corrections where needed. They aren't supposed to help you-outside of maybe demonstrating once or twice-and they sire can't tell you to use shortcuts; otherwise the ride would be grievable. Whatever your SPORH is on that route over the three days will be the standard you'd be held to. If you begin to falter-and not once or twice, because that does not a pattern make-then they'd infer you are no longer following the methods, which can lead to discipline.</p><p></p><p>SPORH, to me, is not a "production" metric, but a "performance" one. Yeah, the "planned day-SPORH" can be argued to be pulled out of thin air, but if a driver continually misses it, then they may get a 3-day. <em>THAT</em> SPORH is not pulled out of thin air, which is why it is used as the basis for discipline, sometimes successfully (we had a driver serve a 5-day that went all the way to national; actually it was a termination that got reduced to a 5-day by the company, for they had won grounds for termination at national hearing).</p><p></p><p>There may be dirty tricks used by management to try to make you have a good ride-a loader notorious for loading 4 misloads on you each and every day suddenly has none, and your loads are clean-but there are ways to combat that, i.e. going by official policy and not delivering air with ground (that new DIAD training on proper use of exception codes concerning air gives good reason to do so). I've had a couple of check rides where the supervisor prevented me from delivering on-area misloads; this will not happen on a 3-day, as official policy is if management does not give you other instructions and if you <em>are able to make service </em>(i.e. it's on-area) we are to attempt to delivery. I pointed out as much to the sup; he also had my heavier pickups covered, and I pointed that out, too. If that had been an actual 3-day, all that stuff is grievable.</p><p></p><p>I believe in a balanced argument. Drivers here saying SPORH is something pulled out of IE's butt are off here, and any new and/or un-initiated driver may be swayed by this. There are ways to make the 3-day go in your favor, but to dismiss it and laugh in its face is unwise, and yes, the contract supports it, without directly stating "stops per on-road hour".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1224760, member: 32753"] 728, I'll take your challenge: In article 37 of the master it makes mention of the oft-quoted "fair days work for fair days pay", and we shall perform our duties in a way "in the best interests of the Employer". How do they determine their interests? Through the driver methods we are all trained in. What does SPORH have to do with those? The OJS measures your SPORH with someone observing you doing the methods, making suggestions/corrections where needed. They aren't supposed to help you-outside of maybe demonstrating once or twice-and they sire can't tell you to use shortcuts; otherwise the ride would be grievable. Whatever your SPORH is on that route over the three days will be the standard you'd be held to. If you begin to falter-and not once or twice, because that does not a pattern make-then they'd infer you are no longer following the methods, which can lead to discipline. SPORH, to me, is not a "production" metric, but a "performance" one. Yeah, the "planned day-SPORH" can be argued to be pulled out of thin air, but if a driver continually misses it, then they may get a 3-day. [I]THAT[/I] SPORH is not pulled out of thin air, which is why it is used as the basis for discipline, sometimes successfully (we had a driver serve a 5-day that went all the way to national; actually it was a termination that got reduced to a 5-day by the company, for they had won grounds for termination at national hearing). There may be dirty tricks used by management to try to make you have a good ride-a loader notorious for loading 4 misloads on you each and every day suddenly has none, and your loads are clean-but there are ways to combat that, i.e. going by official policy and not delivering air with ground (that new DIAD training on proper use of exception codes concerning air gives good reason to do so). I've had a couple of check rides where the supervisor prevented me from delivering on-area misloads; this will not happen on a 3-day, as official policy is if management does not give you other instructions and if you [I]are able to make service [/I](i.e. it's on-area) we are to attempt to delivery. I pointed out as much to the sup; he also had my heavier pickups covered, and I pointed that out, too. If that had been an actual 3-day, all that stuff is grievable. I believe in a balanced argument. Drivers here saying SPORH is something pulled out of IE's butt are off here, and any new and/or un-initiated driver may be swayed by this. There are ways to make the 3-day go in your favor, but to dismiss it and laugh in its face is unwise, and yes, the contract supports it, without directly stating "stops per on-road hour". [/QUOTE]
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