Question about VCD making seniority

[Brown_Cow]

I've looked ever where I can and just can't come to a full understanding doing my own research and reading past posts. As a vacation cover driver should I make seniority as one (21$ an hour) do I get red circled at that rate till I would pass it in normal driver pay progression?

From my understanding since I am doing the same work as a regular full time package car driver my rate of pay should be red circled at the vcd rate of 21$ an hour until I hit my 3rd year of progression should I qualify as a vcd. I could be wrong that's just what I have come to understand from reading various posts.

 

[Over 70]

Whats your supplement say?

 

[Brown_Cow]

I've read through it and I couldn't find any info on pay rates and how it works. Or I at least didn't understand it. I was going to copy and paste the vcd part of our supplement here but it was too long and wouldn't let me post. I'll make a few posts with the vcd section of our supplement (804)

Section 10 – Vacation Coverage Drivers
The intent of these Vacation Coverage Drivers (“VCD”) is to pro-
vide a pathway for full-time package driving jobs. The Company
agrees during the life of this agreement it shall promote a minimum
of fifty (50) employees, including VCDs, from the full time driving
list into full time package car driving jobs. There shall be no part
time package car drivers in Local 804’s jurisdiction. Vacation
Coverage Drivers shall not be used as a subterfuge to prevent the
creation of full-time package driving jobs. Vacation Coverage
Drivers may not be used to supplement the work force, only as tem-
porary replacements. Vacation Coverage Drivers are not to be used
as subterfuge to deny package drivers overtime. Only package driv-
ers on a list to relieve excess overtime, may have their overtime
reduced though the use of VCD’s. If there is a claimed abuse the
Company and the Union will meet and review the appropriate
records. Violations of this section will be subject to the grievance
procedure.
Part-time employees shall be permitted to work as Vacation
Coverage Drivers as follows:
(1) Vacation Coverage Drivers (VCD’s) shall be permitted to work
from the week of Memorial Day through the week of Labor Day
and from October 15 until January 15 of the following year. This
will be considered the qualifying periods. The period between the
week of Memorial Day through the week of Labor Day is restricted
to the proper use of VCD’s and shall not be interpreted as an addi-
tional free period.
(2) Vacation Coverage work shall be offered to part-time employees
on the full-time package car driving list by seniority. If there are no
available employees in the building, the job will be offered by sen-
iority in area where area is defined as follows:
1. 43rd, Manhattan South, Manhattan North
2. Mt. Vernon, Yorktown, Elmsford and Brush Avenue
3. Foster Avenue, Island City, Laurelton and Queens North
4. Suffolk, Melville and Nassau

 

[Brown_Cow]

(3) Employees will not accrue full-time seniority while working as
a vacation cover driver.
(4) Vacation coverage drivers will be paid a guarantee of eight (8)
hours per day and time and one-half (1 1/2) after their daily guar-
antee. Employees working as VCDs will be paid at no less than
twenty-one dollars ($21.00) per hour. Employees working as VCDs
shall receive wage progression service time credit for each month
they work a minimum of fifteen (15) days as a VCD.
(5) The number of Vacation coverage drivers used each week in
the qualification periods shall not exceed the number of seniority
employees on vacation in each building. If, during any week,
the number of VCD drivers scheduled to work that week exceeds
the number of full time package car drivers scheduled for vacation
that week, the Company shall meet promptly with the Local
Union to resolve the issue. In the event of a second (2nd)
occurrence in the same center, the affected employee will be paid
the top rate of a package driver for all hours worked as a VCD that
week. In the event of a third (3rd) occurrence in the same center
over two (2) consecutive VCD usage periods, the company will cre-
ate a full time package driver job to be awarded as outlined in
Article 13.
(6) Vacation overage drivers who work fifty (50) days as vacation
coverage driver in the qualifying periods shall be placed on a qual-
ified list. Days will not be lost due to a sustained grievance where a
vacation coverage driver was not used in seniority order. Vacation
cover drivers on the qualified list subsequently promoted to a pack-
age car driving job shall not have to complete another package car
driver probationary period.
(7) Vacation coverage drivers on the qualified list will not override
the seniority of those employees on the full-time driving list refer-
enced in Article 13, Section 9, number 13 (3), when a full-time
package car driving job becomes available.
(8) If the Employer requires additional package drivers outside of
the qualifying period, such positions shall be bid off of the Full-
Time Driving List in seniority order. If the position is successfully
bid, in seniority order, by a driver on the Vacation Coverage List, in
this specific instance, the number of days on which the vacation
coverage driver performed coverage work in the qualifying periods
shall count towards the forty (40) in seventy (70) day requirement.
If any vacation coverage driver drives outside of the qualifying
period without successfully bidding that work, the Company shall
bid an additional package driver job. Upon confirmation of the vio-
lation, the new package car driving position will be bid within two
(2) weeks.
(9) If a vacation coverage driver has not worked in the program for
one (1) year, he she will have to prequalify again and any days
toward the qualified list will be lost. Days will not be lost due to a
sustained grievance where a vacation coverage driver was not used
in seniority order.

 

[Brown_Cow]

(10) An updated list of all Vacation Coverage Drivers (VCDs) shall
be transmitted to the Local Union at the beginning of each month of
the qualifying period. The Employer shall provide to the Local
Union a report after each qualifying period indicating the names of
the VCD(s) and the number of days worked by the VCD(s).
(11) No package driver will be sent out of his/her center when vaca-
tion coverage drivers are being used in that center. Open package
car drivers will have route preference over vacation coverage driv-
ers.
(12) No seniority package driver will be laid off while vacation cov-
erage drivers are in use, in his or her building.
(13) Vacation cover drivers shall receive all benefits provided for
them under the terms of the Labor Agreement, including part-time
health and welfare and pension benefits.
(14) A part-time employee who works as a vacation cover driver in
a week in which a holiday falls will receive eight (8) hours holiday
pay at the vacation cover driver’s rate of pay.
(15) When work no longer exists in a center for vacation cover driv-
ers, they will immediately revert back to their regular part-time job
with all part-time seniority. Vacation cover drivers shall continue to
accrue part-time seniority and shall have the right to bid on avail-
able part-time jobs.

 

[Brown_Cow]

That's everything on VCDS in our supplement that I could find. I've done my best to understand everything just looking for some help, thank you!

 

[cosmo1]

seignority?

 

[brownmonster]

seignority?

Si.