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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 317213" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>not directly no. However, even the union recognizes that we have a business to run, and the evaluation of production is part of running the business. So in a since, yes the union does recognize those numbers. </p><p></p><p>For you it may make no difference. For drivers in bonus centers it certainly will. For the company as a whole it absolutely will. Changing the time studies may not alter your work methods and ethics, (and really, I would hope that is a superfluous statement, because they certainly should not for anyone) but they will alter your dispatch. Whoever is planning your dispatch is held accountable to dispatch you within a certain range. Most probably between 8.0 and 9.5. If the allowances for your area are way out of whack, you might get dispatched with an 8.5 hour day on paper, but even following trace and the methods and moving at a brisk pace, you are consistently hitting 11 hour days. Fix the time allowances and you fix the dispatch range, and voila, you get to see your family again. Although you take home less in OT and 9.5 grievance pay, but who the hell is going to put a price tag on family?</p><p></p><p>BTW, none of this will happen by working with your union reps. For this, you need to find a way to work with your management. Now, even then, it may not help. I will be the first to admit there are management folks at this company who just don't get it, and I would be happier than you if they would move on ( as my partners, they reflect on me to some degree after all). If you work with some of those, you have my sympathy and my hope that you will get some good ones soon. My impression based on your posts on this board however, lead me to believe that even if you do get some good ones in the future you will not recognize it and will immediately begin destroying any possible positive relationship you might have otherwise built with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 317213, member: 14596"] not directly no. However, even the union recognizes that we have a business to run, and the evaluation of production is part of running the business. So in a since, yes the union does recognize those numbers. For you it may make no difference. For drivers in bonus centers it certainly will. For the company as a whole it absolutely will. Changing the time studies may not alter your work methods and ethics, (and really, I would hope that is a superfluous statement, because they certainly should not for anyone) but they will alter your dispatch. Whoever is planning your dispatch is held accountable to dispatch you within a certain range. Most probably between 8.0 and 9.5. If the allowances for your area are way out of whack, you might get dispatched with an 8.5 hour day on paper, but even following trace and the methods and moving at a brisk pace, you are consistently hitting 11 hour days. Fix the time allowances and you fix the dispatch range, and voila, you get to see your family again. Although you take home less in OT and 9.5 grievance pay, but who the hell is going to put a price tag on family? BTW, none of this will happen by working with your union reps. For this, you need to find a way to work with your management. Now, even then, it may not help. I will be the first to admit there are management folks at this company who just don't get it, and I would be happier than you if they would move on ( as my partners, they reflect on me to some degree after all). If you work with some of those, you have my sympathy and my hope that you will get some good ones soon. My impression based on your posts on this board however, lead me to believe that even if you do get some good ones in the future you will not recognize it and will immediately begin destroying any possible positive relationship you might have otherwise built with them. [/QUOTE]
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