PT Car Washer
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Bid air drivers have a 3 hour guarantee . Exception air drivers have no guarantee and only paid for the time they work.
Air Driver positions getting replaced by 22.4s?
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Method Mensch
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The reason they created the Air Driver position was that there was such a volume of air service that had to get done by 10:30 they couldn't do it with existing ground routes, and yet there wasn't enough volume of ground service packages to justify creating an entire ground route. Enter the Air Driver: he delivers the air volume that needs to get done by 10:30 and has a 3.5 hour guarantee (or 3, depending on which supplement). If there's extra work, you can offer it to him; if not, he punches out. Flexibility for Management.
Or a 22.4 driver can deliver ground at top air rate...
542thruNthru
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Yes but now we have 22.4s with even more flexibility. No more paying a air driver top rate to del or pick up ground.
PT Car Washer
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The 3 hour guarantee is in Art 40 not the supplements. I agree about the flexibility part. Management doesn't have to figure out what to do with an air driver for 8 hours everyday.
Method Mensch
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More flexibility in that they can be directed to do either inside or outside work, but less flexibility in that they have an 8 hour guarantee.
Peppermint Patty
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Maybe when Sundays come it will be a Sunday air operation for some of these air drivers losing their jobs to 22.4s. I think its envitable that air driving to make a living is now out the window.
Staydryitsraining
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In some places air driving is a full time job. I dont agree with it but I've seen it and its ridiculous.
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A full time air driver?
Staydryitsraining
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Yea meaning they work over 8 hours a day.
Peppermint Patty
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No I get it just don't have any here.
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What will happen to all these air drivers forced back into the preload or twilight shift?
Method Mensch
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Well... According to both my steward and my BA, it's not happening. According to multiple Center Managers in the area, it's coming, and Air Drivers can either go 22.4 or inside. I'll go with what The Union says over Management, until it's proven otherwise. The motivation for Management to lie? They're under pressure to fill all those 22.4 slots coming down the pike. The more experienced drivers they can get in those slots, the less training they'll have on their plates. As an added bonus, they get rid of some seniority Air Drivers.
Dont worry a 22.4 driver will be replacing you shortly. Enjoy the money while you can.
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Ok but are you making ground pay for these full routes you are delivering @FlipOldman?
but if you are full time air driver you go into the building at top pay which is higher then air driver because you already went through progression. or if you fall in the old contract you are hitting top pay next year and you will get top pay when your senority date hits.
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And what about the part timers do they saty at there air rate? Or do they go to there inside rate?
542thruNthru
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They would go to their building rate.
Even FT air drivers depending on their supplemental language would go back to their building rate after a week or so of being laid off.
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Staydryitsraining
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Not everybody can be protected like the great and noble 22.4
Peppermint Patty
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That us the whole reason they created them right was because they can use them however they like air, eams, ground, or pickups which eliminates pt people who have been with the company for decades. Not sure what advice I would give to part time air drivers but make the move on your own terms before the layoffs begin.
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