Rack em
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I don't care what he says anymore, all I care about is that he changes his avatar picture! That belongs to @Indecisi0n
Heard it thru the grapevine...
- Thread starter AutoZone
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HEFFERNAN
Huge Member
At least Dave has building seniority and has the ability to work things in his favor.
This tool @AutoZone thinks he's figured it out with zero seniority.
UPS delivery has changed and they aren't going to take it easy on you because you made "top rate" and give you less hours.
The eventual "I got screwed!" forum threads are in his future.
BigUnionGuy
Got the T-Shirt
To be young and dream.
In the Central Region, under Maintenance of Standards....
"It is agreed that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to inadvertent or bona fide errors made by the Employer or the Union in applying the terms and conditions of this Agreement if such error is corrected within ninety (90) days from the date of error."
https://teamster.org/sites/teamster.org/files/06242014_77983_central_region-final.pdf
I'm sure the OP's supplement has similar language, or it has been ruled on before.
Totally cool.
Thats how I started out. But, don't take the contract language verbatim.
There are going to be previous grievance decisions, interpretations,
and this can't be the first time it's happened in your region.
Best case scenario....
90 days of backpay, and a backdated seniority date.
Good luck.
-Bug-
clean hairy
Well-Known Member
Right on the money bug!I am surpised any BA would avoid laughing at him wanting back pay claim for the past year.
BigUnionGuy
Got the T-Shirt
I am surpised any BA would avoid laughing at him wanting back pay claim for the past year.
Laugh at a Member ?
Never.
(there are no wrong questions)
Attempt to educate them with contractual facts ?
Yep.
Make them feel Welcome ?
Absolutely.
-Bug-
You nailed it
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
they don't blink an eye here paying drivers 53 bucks an hour to drive all over gods grren earth delivering misloads.
They couldn't care less about top rate, this kid better bend over because he's got many many many more years of working 55-60 hours per week ahead of him.
"Backing down his hours once he hits top rate" funniest thing I've heard in a while. I needed a good chuckle
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True, the only hours they care on cutting down on is preload hours which is dumb as hell.
Over 70
Well-Known Member
I can get 4.25 hrs to load your truck and have it perfect stop for stop with all labels out or 3.5 and just throwing
on to keep up. Their choice.Big Package
Handler
They tried cutting back our preload hours and a week later we were in at 3am.. it is 2am now.. we've had a few 2:30's. Sometimes I'm there until 11 and some drivers are just leaving. Earliest drivers are out is 10 to 1030.
Johney
Well-Known Member
I imagine the NDA service level in your area has tanked. Only a matter of time before the NDA volume disappears. So much for being an air driver in that center. Better update the resume.
We get out late everyday and they cut air runs.
Johney
Well-Known Member
That's what I'm saying. We have air drivers that work everyday of the week and likely count on those hours(shouldn't)and would cry if they were cut.
They cut them here and in Saturdays too. Only one Saturday air driver, since we got Saturday ground.
Big Package
Handler
Our center is screwed. It doesn't have the infrastructure for this volume. We are up 50% in the last three years. In the last three months have I started seeing 10am. Air doesn't come at 8 anymore. Usually 9. Trailers being late or spotty leaves gaps in the belt or a dry belt or unmanageable heavy flows. We are busy on a dead belt. Drivers help loaders finish up. While this is going on, more air trailers and package cars sometimes come. On third belt I had 3 cars with 1300 pcs and all irregs/overs waiting to be loaded in a coned off section of the lot. Feeders have problems getting through because of this yard sale looking fiasco.
It's not that we can't do it, it's so bad that shelves are spilling out to floor runs and the aisle clogged and stacked with a few rugs and grills and lawnmowers sitting in the parking lot needing to be loaded. I don't blame my coworkers except a few who come in when they want and don't do anything but make everyones job harder. Short 20 heads in preload and 8 call out. 4 cars per loader. Or splitting and 4. We had it so bad one day we just let two cars overflow on 3rd belt and started loading 9am. It's pretty nasty. Unloaders never stay, they're sent home, but some offer every day and get turned down.
It's not that we can't do it, it's so bad that shelves are spilling out to floor runs and the aisle clogged and stacked with a few rugs and grills and lawnmowers sitting in the parking lot needing to be loaded. I don't blame my coworkers except a few who come in when they want and don't do anything but make everyones job harder. Short 20 heads in preload and 8 call out. 4 cars per loader. Or splitting and 4. We had it so bad one day we just let two cars overflow on 3rd belt and started loading 9am. It's pretty nasty. Unloaders never stay, they're sent home, but some offer every day and get turned down.
Johney
Well-Known Member
Sounds to me like your management team needs to get walked out.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
Posted 8 PT air driver jobs T-S. EAM's and Saturday Air. Suppose to get Saturday Ground 1st of Sept.
They just cut about every air run they could here. Even giving full time ground drivers letter boxes and telling them it's okay to pick them up early
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
Are you serious? Where do you guys work
Between Dave never punching out later than 6:15 and your center where they say PU letter boxes early LOLOL. And this ones a doozy also. Read on here someone said they don't deliver there misloads ever. Center tells them just bring em back we'll take care of it. Lmao. My center manager makes us drive 30 miles in the wrong direction from the center to deliver our off routes when we're done. We get this in the PCM every morning. If it's on your truck deliver it. We deliver packages. I've had nights where my RTB eta was 9pm and they made me drive one hour round trip to deliver a ground misload. Where do you guys work?
It's unbelievable some of the stuff I read on here? Do we work for the same company?
Big Package
Handler
Our center manager is an OK guy for a manager but his supervisors don't report anything to him the way it actually happens.
The person underneath him who they all report to in the mornings is a nice person, the one under her is very HR-ish for a sup, the rest are useless except a PT belt sup. You can tell he actually cares, surprisingly.
They're all liars and pit people against each other. They're all bad liars which makes it worse.
Our unload sup hired all his friends, so yeah that didn't work. He can't coordinate trailers or match workers together properly. The smoothest week we ever had in unload was when he was on vacation. Our belt sup goes on vacation and it goes to hell.
