So, I'm a morning pre-loader, and I also deliver Saturday air and other air packages during the week when the regular drivers can't make the commit times.
For the longest time they used to only send one full time driver to the airport in the morning (M-friend) to get the air packages and bring them back to the building. He is not an air driver. But just recently, the pilots stopped helping unload the plane and now UPS has to send two people to the airport every time and there has been a big to-do over who gets to go.
First they thought the position would go to the most senior full time driver that wanted it.
Then they said that it was for air drivers like me and that we could take the position (going with the full time driver) based on seniority and that we would get paid air rate during that time.
I have been doing it for a couple weeks now and I will work the preload for about an hour, then leave to go to the airport, and then come back and finish my preload shift. And while I am gone at the airport I get my air rate, which is almost double my normal pay.
However, just today they came in and told us that it's going to be an "Assigned Position" which means that they can tell any preloader they want that they have to go to the airport with the full time driver and, it does not go by seniority and they will not receive air wages but just our normal preload wages.
When this person goes to the airport, they technically do not drive the truck. We just ride shotgun and help unload and load the packages.
Is this right, or are they trying to pull a fast one on us?
For the longest time they used to only send one full time driver to the airport in the morning (M-friend) to get the air packages and bring them back to the building. He is not an air driver. But just recently, the pilots stopped helping unload the plane and now UPS has to send two people to the airport every time and there has been a big to-do over who gets to go.
First they thought the position would go to the most senior full time driver that wanted it.
Then they said that it was for air drivers like me and that we could take the position (going with the full time driver) based on seniority and that we would get paid air rate during that time.
I have been doing it for a couple weeks now and I will work the preload for about an hour, then leave to go to the airport, and then come back and finish my preload shift. And while I am gone at the airport I get my air rate, which is almost double my normal pay.
However, just today they came in and told us that it's going to be an "Assigned Position" which means that they can tell any preloader they want that they have to go to the airport with the full time driver and, it does not go by seniority and they will not receive air wages but just our normal preload wages.
When this person goes to the airport, they technically do not drive the truck. We just ride shotgun and help unload and load the packages.
Is this right, or are they trying to pull a fast one on us?