Dustyroads
Well-Known Member
Overboard, that sounds a little overboard. Vacation schedules are being completed now for 2010, and there is no blocking of weeks in January. Check with your business agent before crying fire in the theater.
Overboard, that sounds a little overboard. Vacation schedules are being completed now for 2010, and there is no blocking of weeks in January. Check with your business agent before crying fire in the theater.
I got laid off last year and had to work two unload shifts in the hub. One in the morning, one in the evening. I wasn't at top rate then, and it really sucked. I'm second from the bottom in my center, and will be at top rate soon after new years. If they want to pay me near $30 an hour to unload trucks then that's just fine by me....I dont know how things are out in your Centers, But if we have all these Full time drivers Not Driving Durring "Peak" Its not going to Pick up and get better....
Im not too far from the Bottem on the Senority List!!
I have been Driving all summer and all peak so far, only 1 day i was Extra!
But the Way things Look....... What do you think is going to Happen?
are they going to be laying off...part time guy's..drivers... or ..................
I'm a Steward so I'm not worrying about getting laid off- Stewards have super seniority ,which means they are the last to go.....
i dont know *** you talkin about
Being a shop steward dont mean ****!!!
-- Maybee they got your back because you know the Contract book good--
and you will drop them greivences...... but That dont mean anything,, it all works on Senority and you know that!!!
I got laid off last year and had to work two unload shifts in the hub. One in the morning, one in the evening. I wasn't at top rate then, and it really sucked. I'm second from the bottom in my center, and will be at top rate soon after new years. If they want to pay me near $30 an hour to unload trucks then that's just fine by me....
...and here I thought Stewards were put in place to make sure the interests of the hourlies were taken care, not their own.
Depends on where you're at. In my local stewards don't get super seniority.He is actually right about the Steward thing.
Next year will make this year look like a cakewalk. Since April, I have consistently worked until 8:00pm every day. I expect to work later next year. I have never seen UPS ignore 9.5 grievances as much as they have this year. They simply don't care about honoring the contract. We receive daily tongue lashings about the increase in injuries and accidents when it is the added workload which has led to those increases. Next year I expect yet more foolish "cost reducing measures" which will inevitably lead to an increase in costs just as they have done this year. UPS has probably set a record this year in the number of missed packages and other miscellaneous service failures, not to mention the number of customers we lost. All this occurrs because UPS wants to keep their stock price up. I'm glad I sold mine when it was $75 a share. Sorry for the negativity but it would be naive to think otherwise.
I would really like about 10 hours a day in feeders. Right now the budget is just a little tighter then I like.
.no vacations in jan? That cant be true.
Every year, Corporate sends someone down to work in the trenches as our Driver Helper Coordinator.
Every year, Corporate sends someone down to work in the trenches as our Driver Helper Coordinator. I was talking to this guy Friday night and I asked him what he did there. His reply was: "I predict the future". I thought that was pretty interesting, I should have asked him what the Mega Millions numbers were for Friday night. Anyways, he said that he studied what the economy was doing and helps Corporate decide what to do in respect as to planning ahead. He stated that our early peak volumn was a little stronger than expected. Interesting guy, I think I will talk with him some more.