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<blockquote data-quote="BigBrownSanta" data-source="post: 282571" data-attributes="member: 11097"><p>The newly ratified contract was the prime opportunity to have a change implemented. The company would've probably agreed to more language changes rather than pay billions more in penalties and updated actuarial tables to withdraw from Central States after Jan 1.</p><p> </p><p>You have four options:</p><p> </p><p>1. Ask UPS and the IBT to change the language to "a meal period of up to 1 hour is provided but optional unless mandated by state law."</p><p> </p><p>2. Report the hour in your DIAD, then file a complaint with the Dept of Labor when you don't get paid for working through your lunch hour.</p><p> </p><p>3. Find a way to get all drivers to unite and take the full hour lunch or force the company to enforce the lunch hour equally across the board by grieving drivers who work through their lunch hour (I honestly don't know how you could do this with the current language).</p><p> </p><p>4. Take the full hour lunch and wait 6 years for the next contract negotiations.</p><p> </p><p>Since 1 will never happen, and 2 would require guts (read painting a very target on your back), 3 is possible but the members are too divided to accomplish this (TieGuy is exactly right about this one), then 4 seems to be the only answer at this time.</p><p> </p><p>BTW, the naysayers weren't wrong, they were just late to the party. It's not a 1 month campaign to vote down a contract, it's an ongoing effort that requires teaching and explaining language to the members throughout the term of the contract.</p><p> </p><p>With all that said, I'll bet the next contract passes no matter what language gets put in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigBrownSanta, post: 282571, member: 11097"] The newly ratified contract was the prime opportunity to have a change implemented. The company would've probably agreed to more language changes rather than pay billions more in penalties and updated actuarial tables to withdraw from Central States after Jan 1. You have four options: 1. Ask UPS and the IBT to change the language to "a meal period of up to 1 hour is provided but optional unless mandated by state law." 2. Report the hour in your DIAD, then file a complaint with the Dept of Labor when you don't get paid for working through your lunch hour. 3. Find a way to get all drivers to unite and take the full hour lunch or force the company to enforce the lunch hour equally across the board by grieving drivers who work through their lunch hour (I honestly don't know how you could do this with the current language). 4. Take the full hour lunch and wait 6 years for the next contract negotiations. Since 1 will never happen, and 2 would require guts (read painting a very target on your back), 3 is possible but the members are too divided to accomplish this (TieGuy is exactly right about this one), then 4 seems to be the only answer at this time. BTW, the naysayers weren't wrong, they were just late to the party. It's not a 1 month campaign to vote down a contract, it's an ongoing effort that requires teaching and explaining language to the members throughout the term of the contract. With all that said, I'll bet the next contract passes no matter what language gets put in it. [/QUOTE]
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