Thank you for your reply, Rocky. However, perhaps I should elaborate on my original post. I'm not referring to 22.3 combo jobs, rather Article 22.4 paragraph 4:
Part-time employees with six (6) months or more seniority shall have the right to place their name on the list of employees waiting to be moved a preferred job within their building. Such preferred jobs shall include, but not be limited to: Preload, Sorter, Clerical, Irregular Train, Designated Responder, Carwasher, Loader, and Unloader. Employees do not have the right to select any specific unit, load, or workstation unless a prior past practice has been established.
I have ~2.5 years seniority (plus a Peak as a seasonal hire, which doesn't count). This Spring there was potentially a clerk job opening (it was vacated when someone had himself declared permanently disabled - he walked with an extremely pronounced limp). The remaining clerks were asked who they thought would be a good replacement, and my name came up. Now I knew things don't (or shouldn't) work like that, but figured I should at least get my name on the preferred jobs list (there was also some questions about whether this position would be filled or if the long-time employee on disability was coming back). HR told me (then) they had a separate list for each preferred job. Well since that was the only opening I knew of, I said put me down for it. The job did get filled, by someone with about the same seniority as me- I have no problem with that. Fast forward to now, I go back to HR intending to get my name on the list for every job they have, and I'm told that "nobody goes by that list anymore, they (the supervisors and managers) handle that themselves, except for maybe some clerk jobs". In the mean time I now see at least 1 newly hired employee (seniority date is less than 4 mos. ago, which would include probationary period) filled a recently vacated preferred job. New hire-"where does State,xxx zip go?" Me-"I need all five digits of the zip for that. It is ground service, isn't it?" He had no idea what I meant by GROUND SERVICE, or how to identify it as such. I asked HR specifically about working in that unit (last week), HR told me to "go talk to Xxxx, the (part-time) supe there.
While I'm not happy about it, I could accept that a building practice was established negating the last line of that paragraph in the CBA. But I don't believe I should stand by while preferred jobs are going to new hires because they happened to get hired the same day the opening comes up. It's not fair to the bargaining unit members, and while it's of no direct concern of mine, it certainly doesn't seem to do any good for the building's performance numbers.
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