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<blockquote data-quote="LKLND3380" data-source="post: 312388" data-attributes="member: 6601"><p>This would be a better question for your Local President and/or Business Agent...</p><p> </p><p>My thoughts are this... The local should be having meetings in the locals to come up with contract (Master Agreement). There will be a nationwide contract and then local suppliments that are specific to your region of the country - Southern, Western, Mid Atlantic, etc...</p><p> </p><p>This contract will be in effect for possibly 5 years and when the company or union want to change the rules they must meet and hammer out a new contract. YOU will have to vote on accepting the contract...</p><p> </p><p>Lets say in your building you have management that likes to bends the rules. One thing we have at UPS for part timers is over-time pay for EACH day you work more than five hours. So management does it's best to keep us from working over five hours - it hurts their numbers. Management may try to do "our" work in an effort to get employees out faster. That is taking time away from union workers so we file a grievence against UPS and get paid additional money for work the supervisor did. Lets say you keep a log and a supervisor does "union work" one hour a day for two months and it adds up to 40 hours. You file a grievence and get paid for 40 hours the Supervisor did at your hourly rate...</p><p> </p><p>Part timers are guaranteed a minimum of 3.5 hours each day and lets say volume is down that day so they cut some routes. You show up for work to find out there is nothing to do... They can ask IF you want the day off and you can volunteer to go home without pay. You can say no, you want to work and then they must find work for you to do for at least 3.5 hours... If they send you home and deny your request to work, you file a grievence and get paid for the day off...</p><p> </p><p>I hope these examples may have helped you... </p><p> </p><p>The key to the success for the Union and UPS Freight workers is for each person to know their rights under the contract. UPS Supervisors and UPS Management will tell you what THEY BELIEVE is in the contract when they may have never read it. I have had Supervisors lie to me and after I point out they are wrong, a week later tell the same lie to a co-worker....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LKLND3380, post: 312388, member: 6601"] This would be a better question for your Local President and/or Business Agent... My thoughts are this... The local should be having meetings in the locals to come up with contract (Master Agreement). There will be a nationwide contract and then local suppliments that are specific to your region of the country - Southern, Western, Mid Atlantic, etc... This contract will be in effect for possibly 5 years and when the company or union want to change the rules they must meet and hammer out a new contract. YOU will have to vote on accepting the contract... Lets say in your building you have management that likes to bends the rules. One thing we have at UPS for part timers is over-time pay for EACH day you work more than five hours. So management does it's best to keep us from working over five hours - it hurts their numbers. Management may try to do "our" work in an effort to get employees out faster. That is taking time away from union workers so we file a grievence against UPS and get paid additional money for work the supervisor did. Lets say you keep a log and a supervisor does "union work" one hour a day for two months and it adds up to 40 hours. You file a grievence and get paid for 40 hours the Supervisor did at your hourly rate... Part timers are guaranteed a minimum of 3.5 hours each day and lets say volume is down that day so they cut some routes. You show up for work to find out there is nothing to do... They can ask IF you want the day off and you can volunteer to go home without pay. You can say no, you want to work and then they must find work for you to do for at least 3.5 hours... If they send you home and deny your request to work, you file a grievence and get paid for the day off... I hope these examples may have helped you... The key to the success for the Union and UPS Freight workers is for each person to know their rights under the contract. UPS Supervisors and UPS Management will tell you what THEY BELIEVE is in the contract when they may have never read it. I have had Supervisors lie to me and after I point out they are wrong, a week later tell the same lie to a co-worker.... [/QUOTE]
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