What do you think the Teamsters will or should ask for in the next contract to reduce unwanted OT?
What about the employees who want the OT?
What about the employees who want the OT?
It seems to me the company doesn't mind paying penalty pay for excessive OT. There's got to be a way to stop them from these excessive hours. Lets hear them.
Simple, make it more profitable to add another route. As long as your neighbors don't file and you're the only one who does, they pay you and work them. Want another route in, get your entire loop to start filing, or just keep making 90 bucks an hour till they realize they are working for less money then you. Show them that grievance check when you get paid, make sure you mention you got paid 1.5 times more money then them for the same work. If that doesn't work and they just load down your neighbors, thank them for taking all your extra work and you'll leave the lights on for them as management needs you in before 9.5 today. Make sure you give them the two "guns fingers" with a wink, that tends to get them riled up. When they finally get fed up and want to file ask the "What took you so long" to make sure they are pissed off enough to actually turn it in.
Long story short, the process to get more routes is already here, members need to use it and make it unprofitable to leave people out there due them cutting routes. Once again it comes down to member involvement.
One thing happened this year (only once). The drivers on the list that had worked past 9.5 two days got to bring their cars in and drivers that were not on the list or ones that were but had not worked past 9.5 two days had to take the stops back out and finish the route.
There is a reason it only happened once---it is not fair to the drivers who were done.
Would it even matter we negotiated better overtime penalties? It doesn't sound like teamsters is really standing behind the 9.5 language with full force anyhow.
Exactly, that's the problem.. UPS really isn't breaking the contract. The ones that file eventually get the triple time. What can the union do if the company works drivers past 9.5 then pays the penalty? The only thing I can think of is next contract have language that says "no working past 9.5 over two days a week" and for the drivers that do want the hours (Upstate NY did make a good point on this a few posts ago) let them have them. In other words have a 9.5 list that says no working past 9.5 two days in one week PERIOD (barring something like a breakdown etc.) and the drivers that don't get on the list can have all the hours they want.
What do you think the Teamsters will or should ask for in the next contract to reduce unwanted OT?
You are correct in my oppinion. I don't think I would go as far as to taunt my fellow co-workers, but I would make sure I explain to them the reasoning behind my actions.Simple, make it more profitable to add another route. As long as your neighbors don't file and you're the only one who does, they pay you and work them. Want another route in, get your entire loop to start filing, or just keep making 90 bucks an hour till they realize they are working for less money then you. Show them that grievance check when you get paid, make sure you mention you got paid 1.5 times more money then them for the same work. If that doesn't work and they just load down your neighbors, thank them for taking all your extra work and you'll leave the lights on for them as management needs you in before 9.5 today. Make sure you give them the two "guns fingers" with a wink, that tends to get them riled up. When they finally get fed up and want to file ask the "What took you so long" to make sure they are pissed off enough to actually turn it in.
Long story short, the process to get more routes is already here, members need to use it and make it unprofitable to leave people out there due them cutting routes. Once again it comes down to member involvement.
Anyone know how the penalty pay works? Have been on the 9.5 list a long time and have already had two 9.5's this week. Got called in to pre-load this morning at 4am. Of course, Sup. loaded heavy me today (probably because he knew he could get away with it). Ended up working a 13 today. Is the penalty pay automatic or do they enter it in each week for each driver?
What do you think the Teamsters will or should ask for in the next contract to reduce unwanted OT?