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<blockquote data-quote="DELACROIX" data-source="post: 3599317" data-attributes="member: 49065"><p>The pick of the liter for our current part time workforce is slim to none, they know what kind of physical work is involved and they do not want to do it for 8 or 10 hours, let alone the production standards and work environment required for a long term full time position like the hybrids. Most are going to be preload/driver, I worked the preload and it is no fun getting up at 2 am and start physically moving packages. It is a matter of time that your body pays the price, add that to the physical drain on your joints and stress of driving a package car. The job will be a young man's sport, others needn't apply. This will help with the underfunded Teamster controlled Pension and the H/W funding (a 20 year old hired off the street that will not be collecting from the Pension plans till 30 years or drain the Health and Welfare funds with age or physical issues. (Win-Win scenario).</p><p></p><p>Face it most of these Hybrids will be hired off the street and with the economy booming and wages increasing it will still be hard to get, train and release qualified newbies, let alone them staying and making a career out of it. Another consideration is that even with our 22.3's just how many do work a full eight hour shift. In our building a lot of the old ones leave in 4 or 5 hours, no issue with management, just pay then actual and 20 or 30 years down the line the ones who leave early daly will suffer with retirement benefits and have to work additional years to qualify for a service pension. This will happen to these Hybrid positions and thus the company has a part time driving position it has always lusted after, full time on paper but in reality not so.</p><p></p><p>The Saturday and possible Sunday shifts will more than likely be these Hybrids. The positive aspect of this is that the load quality and misload rates will go down with the employees loading their own trucks. Another one is not seeing all these (money-making) irregs continually being LIB (they are going to raise the rates again for over 70's soon), not even waiting for the end of the year?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DELACROIX, post: 3599317, member: 49065"] The pick of the liter for our current part time workforce is slim to none, they know what kind of physical work is involved and they do not want to do it for 8 or 10 hours, let alone the production standards and work environment required for a long term full time position like the hybrids. Most are going to be preload/driver, I worked the preload and it is no fun getting up at 2 am and start physically moving packages. It is a matter of time that your body pays the price, add that to the physical drain on your joints and stress of driving a package car. The job will be a young man's sport, others needn't apply. This will help with the underfunded Teamster controlled Pension and the H/W funding (a 20 year old hired off the street that will not be collecting from the Pension plans till 30 years or drain the Health and Welfare funds with age or physical issues. (Win-Win scenario). Face it most of these Hybrids will be hired off the street and with the economy booming and wages increasing it will still be hard to get, train and release qualified newbies, let alone them staying and making a career out of it. Another consideration is that even with our 22.3's just how many do work a full eight hour shift. In our building a lot of the old ones leave in 4 or 5 hours, no issue with management, just pay then actual and 20 or 30 years down the line the ones who leave early daly will suffer with retirement benefits and have to work additional years to qualify for a service pension. This will happen to these Hybrid positions and thus the company has a part time driving position it has always lusted after, full time on paper but in reality not so. The Saturday and possible Sunday shifts will more than likely be these Hybrids. The positive aspect of this is that the load quality and misload rates will go down with the employees loading their own trucks. Another one is not seeing all these (money-making) irregs continually being LIB (they are going to raise the rates again for over 70's soon), not even waiting for the end of the year? [/QUOTE]
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