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<blockquote data-quote="Article 3" data-source="post: 3177666"><p>First, to address the lunch issue here dredges up the same frustration we encounter with even high seniority drivers in our own workplace.</p><p>They don't have the spine to take their lunch during the contracted time(s) because they'll have to either take a stand on their negotiated rights and weather the blow back from supes that bank on them making it easy to cut routes (screwing other coworkers who would've driven but were laid off because their fellow drivers blew thru their lunch to "make service") and decide to break the very language that they are protected under.</p><p></p><p>The sheep pic was a word picture. It was also meant to be humorous so don't take it personal. Many of us have been sheep in the beginning of our employment and/or at least after qualifying for a driving job. It wasn't meant for just ewe.</p><p></p><p>Finally, you have to understand that the issue of delaying lunches (barring a family emergency, etc) past the time allotted time in the CBA, working/driving thru breaks, is truly a sore subject to many who have the responsibility to make other bargaining unit employees understand that they need to stop the practice and why it screws the people they work with.</p><p></p><p>For me, it's a sore subject because no matter how hoarse you get educating the cowardly people you work with about this issue they still don't man up and obey what the CBA dictates. It's very frustrating. And after awhile you realize that it's also an embarrassment to the union.</p><p></p><p>Dishonesty wasn't even mentioned in my previous post. And by the way, when I was in my first year of driving one day I took my "lunch" at 17:30. When a top senior driver asked why I was hanging around the locker room I told him I was on lunch and I was lucky to have gotten out of the locker room with my hearing intact. I got the point and from that day on I made it a point to adhere to the contract language.</p><p>You're lucky. All you got was a sheep pic.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group2/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Rolleyes :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Article 3, post: 3177666"] First, to address the lunch issue here dredges up the same frustration we encounter with even high seniority drivers in our own workplace. They don't have the spine to take their lunch during the contracted time(s) because they'll have to either take a stand on their negotiated rights and weather the blow back from supes that bank on them making it easy to cut routes (screwing other coworkers who would've driven but were laid off because their fellow drivers blew thru their lunch to "make service") and decide to break the very language that they are protected under. The sheep pic was a word picture. It was also meant to be humorous so don't take it personal. Many of us have been sheep in the beginning of our employment and/or at least after qualifying for a driving job. It wasn't meant for just ewe. Finally, you have to understand that the issue of delaying lunches (barring a family emergency, etc) past the time allotted time in the CBA, working/driving thru breaks, is truly a sore subject to many who have the responsibility to make other bargaining unit employees understand that they need to stop the practice and why it screws the people they work with. For me, it's a sore subject because no matter how hoarse you get educating the cowardly people you work with about this issue they still don't man up and obey what the CBA dictates. It's very frustrating. And after awhile you realize that it's also an embarrassment to the union. Dishonesty wasn't even mentioned in my previous post. And by the way, when I was in my first year of driving one day I took my "lunch" at 17:30. When a top senior driver asked why I was hanging around the locker room I told him I was on lunch and I was lucky to have gotten out of the locker room with my hearing intact. I got the point and from that day on I made it a point to adhere to the contract language. You're lucky. All you got was a sheep pic.:rolleyes: [/QUOTE]
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