Hello,
I am currently working as an unloader during preload early AM. I'm normally done with the trucks by 8-8:30am. I have class starting at 11am on tuesday and thursday, and have to leave my house around 10:30am to get to campus on time.
Before this, I would unload the trucks then go and help loaders clear their stack-outs. This sometimes led to me being in the building until 9:45-10:00am. I spoke with the manager and told her that I would like a set time to leave. She told me she cannot do that, but I can leave once I finish unloading the trucks.
So today, I finished my trucks at 8:00am. We only get 4 trucks, 1 long and 3 shorts, and the 4th short had only about 50% in it. I'm getting ready to walk out and the preload supervisor asks me to stay and help load trucks and clear stack-outs. I told him that the general manager said I was allowed to leave if I finished unloading, and that I had asked her for a set time instead (as I had seen this issue occurring). He gets frustrated and yells at me to "just go home then". I left.
This leaves me with some questions:
1) I was under the impression that corporate SOP is to not have anyone stacked out, as it was an egress issue. Should I take pictures of these stack-outs for evidence?
2) Our air does not get to our center until around 9-9:30 am. This would leave the loaders almost an hour and a half to finish loading their own stack-outs. Why do they need me to stay?
3) Is my prior agreement with management binding in any way? And if they wish to change the terms of my agreement in a harmful way towards me attending class what are my options for rebuttal? They were informed before hiring me that I was attending college and my schedule hours.
4) Do I file a grievance on management or my fellow UPSers? Honestly, the same 2-3 people are stacked out every day and their routes aren't even that bad, they simply don't work hard enough. They should be the one's held accountable, not me, for their lack of performance.
Along with this, I have trained 4-5 employees for unloading since I have started. I was not told this was voluntary in any way, or that I should be paid a premium for training employees. Under Section 5, Article 6 of the Master Agreement Contract I should be entitled to a pay increase and option on whether or not to train people. Is it too late for me to file a grievance on this? The last person I trained was 3 weeks ago.
I am currently working as an unloader during preload early AM. I'm normally done with the trucks by 8-8:30am. I have class starting at 11am on tuesday and thursday, and have to leave my house around 10:30am to get to campus on time.
Before this, I would unload the trucks then go and help loaders clear their stack-outs. This sometimes led to me being in the building until 9:45-10:00am. I spoke with the manager and told her that I would like a set time to leave. She told me she cannot do that, but I can leave once I finish unloading the trucks.
So today, I finished my trucks at 8:00am. We only get 4 trucks, 1 long and 3 shorts, and the 4th short had only about 50% in it. I'm getting ready to walk out and the preload supervisor asks me to stay and help load trucks and clear stack-outs. I told him that the general manager said I was allowed to leave if I finished unloading, and that I had asked her for a set time instead (as I had seen this issue occurring). He gets frustrated and yells at me to "just go home then". I left.
This leaves me with some questions:
1) I was under the impression that corporate SOP is to not have anyone stacked out, as it was an egress issue. Should I take pictures of these stack-outs for evidence?
2) Our air does not get to our center until around 9-9:30 am. This would leave the loaders almost an hour and a half to finish loading their own stack-outs. Why do they need me to stay?
3) Is my prior agreement with management binding in any way? And if they wish to change the terms of my agreement in a harmful way towards me attending class what are my options for rebuttal? They were informed before hiring me that I was attending college and my schedule hours.
4) Do I file a grievance on management or my fellow UPSers? Honestly, the same 2-3 people are stacked out every day and their routes aren't even that bad, they simply don't work hard enough. They should be the one's held accountable, not me, for their lack of performance.
Along with this, I have trained 4-5 employees for unloading since I have started. I was not told this was voluntary in any way, or that I should be paid a premium for training employees. Under Section 5, Article 6 of the Master Agreement Contract I should be entitled to a pay increase and option on whether or not to train people. Is it too late for me to file a grievance on this? The last person I trained was 3 weeks ago.