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I live in a B0 market too and the starting courier pay where I'm at is $18.49. I don't understand how some B0 markets pay more than others. And we are short staffed too, especially with handlers, but they refuse to boost pay in my market to drawn people in. Starting RTD pay in my market is $23.09. What is is where you're at Dano?
yadig
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You’d better have a good work ethic also. FedEx awards the losers and punishes the producers
RTD is a funny case with Express. It’s the position in the company with the most options as far as leaving. The company knows this, yet still tries to treat them like couriers.
How do they get treated like couriers?
Well for starters the exact same pay scale as ramp agents, swing couriers, and dispatchers. You know 3 job codes that have next to zero options as far as other employment. Ya RTD’s get paid the same as them lol. Zero additional pay for being a swing RTD. Which is the only position in the company expected to cover first, second AND third shift schedules. We bid routes the same way with total seniority instead of time in position (no 30 year courier should be able to transfer to RTD and take a route from a 10 year RTD). It’s just stupid lol.
I was in a B0 market and did not hit $23 until step 5
The things you mentioned has nothing to do with being treated like couriers. Bidding by seniority or CEV points (if that's still in play) is the way its done company wide and has been in the 31 years I have been here. That's not just a courier thing. If a high seniority (courier, CSA, ramp agent, manager, handler) transfers into an RTD position and has been in that position for 6 or more months to gain their seniority back, they are certainly eligible to bid on all open jobs. Everyone has lost out on bids due to higher seniority people putting in the them. If you are saying that a non RTD, high seniority employee transfers into your location and takes a route that is not open for bid from a lower seniority employee, then you guys have a problem and should be GFTing that.
I agree that swings should get paid more. If your swings have to cover all shifts, how is that being treated like a courier, when you say RTD is the only position in the company that is expected to do that? Couriers don't work a 24/7 shift like we do. We have day shift swings and night time swings. That's a problem at your location and not an AGFS wide problem.
If you think AGFS is the same as DGO and being a courier, you are in a bad location.
Can you tell me what location or locations are starting out new RT drivers at step 5? The step 5 RTD pay in my 100 air mile radius is $39/hr and more. There are not many union truck driving jobs around here starting at $80/hr. I am certainly interested to hear the list of locations that are starting at top out for new transfers as we have people looking to move out of state and this could be a deciding factor.
At our location we all voted to move from routes to shifts many years ago. The whole two hours before and after your scheduled start time comes into play at that point and you hope that the people in your shift group are lower seniority than you. Should someones regular job duties go away and instead of them becoming a float driver they take the route of the driver with the lowest seniority in their shift group.
zeev
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I don’t know what step I said 5 years seniority top pay here is $33.00 hour every station in AGFS varies, we could never bid a route.
59 Dano
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B0 courier staring pay isn't $18.49.
The Nashville market (and others) do. Staring pay for C2 courier is $20.22, plus a $3/hour premium.
!Retired!
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Here's the most recent pay scale. If it hasn't changed yet, it probably will.
while many others are getting screwed
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
That's not the most recent pay scale.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
How are they getting screwed?
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