New Englander
Well-Known Member
How often can you be forced off of your bid to cover something else by management and what is our recourse via grievance when they exceed that?
Is there any penalty to them?
Is there any penalty to them?
I jut had this discussion with my home package car driver today. If you are a senior driver who won the bid on your route and they pull you off to cover another route because they don`t want to train the junior cover driver you should grieve it each and every time. Mgmt is being lazy,stand your ground.
I spent my lunch reading my union book but I can't find where it is in the book and what to grieve it under and for what penalty to them.
I do have a voice mail left to my BA but he can be notoriously slow in responding sometime and our Steward honestly needs to be replaced.
You must obtain a union book and read it thick and through. Our local states you only bid on start times but in the supplement part of the contract it states routes go by area preference in seniorioty order.If u get pulled from your route go to another for the day and file a grievence ASAP
Here when we bid a route it is our route to we either move on to another route, go feeder or retire, we do not bid annually for package car routes.How often can you be forced off of your bid to cover something else by management and what is our recourse via grievance when they exceed that?
Is there any penalty to them?
This is where situations like mine come in handy. We are a dual center HUB. I used to be inthe other center and I knew close to 20 routes +/-. I sgined a bid in the other center to get away from that. I did know 2 other routes inteh center I am in now but they changed so much after we rerouted everything that I no longer know them. so now I only know one and haven't run anything else in 6 years
Call you local BA you pay your dues make him/her work for it!
Call you local BA you pay your dues make him/her work for it!