Pushing 30 year old rule!

[Johney]

According to your Local seniority practice.

Do you really feel the need to "spike the ball" ??


You skipped over more senior Union members. Are you laughing about it ?



-Bug-

Spike the ball my ass, I didn't skip over anybody they had a chance to outbid me and passed how do you consider that laughing about it? Now I'll spike the ball......I pick vacations before them too.

 

[Johney]

I've told a lot of the guys who complained about the way we do it here, that if your seniority reset when you get to feeders, most of the guys who waited to go would have gone much earlier, making it much harder for those guys complaining, to go at all. As it is, you can choose when the time is right for you, or not go at all. The choice is made easier, knowing you'll take your full-time seniority with you. There is no rush.

So you have no problem getting bumped back to package say after 10 years in feeder? Because it could possibly happen if enough guys changed their mind, well maybe not you personally but someone.

 

[burrheadd]

Spike the ball my ass, I didn't skip over anybody they had a chance to outbid me and passed how do you consider that laughing about it? Now I'll spike the ball......I pick vacations before them too.

Wonder if you’d feel the same if the situation was reversed?

 

[Johney]

Wonder if you’d feel the same if the situation was reversed?

Would you? Of course not. Don't tell me we aren't all here to better ourselves. You gonna pass on a run because it might benefit the guy behind you? Not likely.

 

[burrheadd]

Would you? Of course not. Don't tell me we aren't all here to better ourselves. You gonna pass on a run because it might benefit the guy behind you? Not likely.

Not how I understand seniority to work

Glad it’s working for you

 

[Johney]

Listen it's what it is here will I complain? Hell no, has anybody complained? No. 22.3 jobs works the same and no one says anything because it was that way before any of us got there and will likely be the same after we're all gone.

 

[burrheadd]

Listen it's what it is here will I complain? Hell no, has anybody complained? No. 22.3 jobs works the same and no one says anything because it was that way before any of us got there and will likely be the same after we're all gone.

Ok

 

[Johney]

Not how I understand seniority to work

Glad it’s working for you

Seniority works the same, you bid a new gig and you go to the bottom.

 

[Johney]

Not how I understand seniority to work

Glad it’s working for you

I assure you I'm not the only one it works for. May even benefit a shop steward or two.

 

[burrheadd]

Seniority works the same, you bid a new gig and you go to the bottom.

Nope that’s not really how seniority works

But, like I said glad it’s working for
you

 

[Johney]

Nope that’s not really how seniority works

But, like I said glad it’s working for
you

No it isn't, but it is how it works here and no one complains.

 

[ezmoney5150]

T

Q: Wanna know how to piss off a feeder driver ?

A: When your over-all seniority surpasses theirs.... for a job.








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That is generally off the sreet hires that have a problem with pkg car drivers come up. Definitely not me.

 

[Dracula]

So you have no problem getting bumped back to package say after 10 years in feeder? Because it could possibly happen if enough guys changed their mind, well maybe not you personally but someone.

We have so many drivers here, that when they lay off drivers, it usually guys with less than three years seniority that get sent back.

 

[BigUnionGuy]

Spike the ball my ass, I didn't skip over anybody they had a chance to outbid me and passed how do you consider that laughing about it? Now I'll spike the ball......I pick vacations before them too.

Like I said.... it's a contentious issue.

It's your Local practice, and I respect that. But it doesn't mean I agree with it.

That is generally off the street hires that have a problem with pkg car drivers come up.

Isn't that the truth.

I've actually heard some of them say "they are stealing our work".

I'm kind of the mindset.... that seniority only sucks.... when you don't have it.

Definitely not me.

That goes without saying.



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