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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 801400" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Thats all well and good, but here is the<em> reality</em> in a nutshell.</p><p> </p><p>The modern day Center Manager does not get to decide how many routes to dispatch. He does not get to decide how many stops-per-car to dispatch. He does not get to decide how many employees to hire, or how many package cars he should be supplied with, or what the average planned day for his center should be. He does not have the power to review or correct flawed time studies. He is not a "manager" in the traditional sense of the word since <em>he cannot make any decisions that affect the day-to-day operations of his center.</em></p><p> </p><p>Last summer the stewards in my building held a meeting with our center manager, our Division manager, and the local and regional Labor managers in an attempt to resolve the issue of chronic overdispatching that was leading to dozens of grievances per week and an <em>average</em> paid day of 10.5 hours. <em>We were told that nothing could be done until the SPC metric that was being demanded by Corporate was changed, and that nobody in that meeting had the authority to do so. </em></p><p> </p><p>$54,000 worth of grievances later, the SPC metric for our center has been adjusted downward and for the time being at least the 9.5 language is being honored. But that could all change tomorrow depending upon the personal whim of whoever has the authority to decide what that number should be. And as operations-level employees, we will never have access or be granted an audience with that person.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 801400, member: 14668"] Thats all well and good, but here is the[I] reality[/I] in a nutshell. The modern day Center Manager does not get to decide how many routes to dispatch. He does not get to decide how many stops-per-car to dispatch. He does not get to decide how many employees to hire, or how many package cars he should be supplied with, or what the average planned day for his center should be. He does not have the power to review or correct flawed time studies. He is not a "manager" in the traditional sense of the word since [I]he cannot make any decisions that affect the day-to-day operations of his center.[/I] Last summer the stewards in my building held a meeting with our center manager, our Division manager, and the local and regional Labor managers in an attempt to resolve the issue of chronic overdispatching that was leading to dozens of grievances per week and an [I]average[/I] paid day of 10.5 hours. [I]We were told that nothing could be done until the SPC metric that was being demanded by Corporate was changed, and that nobody in that meeting had the authority to do so. [/I] $54,000 worth of grievances later, the SPC metric for our center has been adjusted downward and for the time being at least the 9.5 language is being honored. But that could all change tomorrow depending upon the personal whim of whoever has the authority to decide what that number should be. And as operations-level employees, we will never have access or be granted an audience with that person. [/QUOTE]
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