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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 801178" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>In my area at least the union has already made multiple concessions to the company in regards to the over 9.5 language. Currently it is only the bid-route drivers or drivers who have been on the same route for one full week who are eligible to file.</p><p> </p><p>I can also say that the overwhelming majority of drivers I work with do not mind a <em>reasonable</em> amount of OT. Most of them have no need or desire to file as long as they are kept in the 9.5 to 10.2 range. I myself went the first 23 years of my driving career <strong>without ever once</strong> filing a 9.5 grievance.</p><p> </p><p>That all changed last summer when our center was given an impossible stops-per-car metric to attain. We had drivers working 13 and 14 hour days as a matter of routine. We had drivers running out of DOT hours in August. We had drivers knocking on doors and delivering residential stops at 10:30 at night, and bringing dozens of missed stops back as late as 11:00 PM. At that point, a 9.5 grievance isnt about greed for money and it isnt about being lazy or unwilling to work overtime...its about survival for employees who have been driven to the breaking point or beyond.</p><p> </p><p>What was being forced down our throats by Corporate was not rational, and constituted a willful and intentional violation of the labor agreement. It was bad for the employees, it was bad for the customers, and it was bad for UPS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 801178, member: 14668"] In my area at least the union has already made multiple concessions to the company in regards to the over 9.5 language. Currently it is only the bid-route drivers or drivers who have been on the same route for one full week who are eligible to file. I can also say that the overwhelming majority of drivers I work with do not mind a [I]reasonable[/I] amount of OT. Most of them have no need or desire to file as long as they are kept in the 9.5 to 10.2 range. I myself went the first 23 years of my driving career [B]without ever once[/B] filing a 9.5 grievance. That all changed last summer when our center was given an impossible stops-per-car metric to attain. We had drivers working 13 and 14 hour days as a matter of routine. We had drivers running out of DOT hours in August. We had drivers knocking on doors and delivering residential stops at 10:30 at night, and bringing dozens of missed stops back as late as 11:00 PM. At that point, a 9.5 grievance isnt about greed for money and it isnt about being lazy or unwilling to work overtime...its about survival for employees who have been driven to the breaking point or beyond. What was being forced down our throats by Corporate was not rational, and constituted a willful and intentional violation of the labor agreement. It was bad for the employees, it was bad for the customers, and it was bad for UPS. [/QUOTE]
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