Wow! I didn't realize that RPCDs could not get up to 60 hours. I'm shocked... SHOCKED!!
Here is my not surprised face.
. RPCDs can be limited to 40 hours while 22.4's get up to 60 hours. Why doesn't the RPCD have a right to 60 hours before a 22.4? You can not rationally explain that.
The # of RPCDs who are guaranteed 40 hours is drastically impacted by the intentional neglect of the negotiating team. Hoffa/Hall/Taylor should have changed the language to ensure all RPCDs were guaranteed 40 , instead they sold them out. Simple language should have been added: All RPCDs will be guaranteed 40 hours before a 22.4. Simple. But instead we are still stuck with:
There shall be a weekly guarantee in each center as follows: In each classification in each center, the most senior ninety percent (90%) of employees called or put to work on the first (1st) workday shall be afforded the opportunity of working forty (40) hours of straight time work during the week.
The Hoffa/Hall/Taylor team created and introduced the new 22.4 classification that tops out a $6 an hour less than an RPCD and never has 9.5 rights.
They crafted all that language yet somehow they could not craft language that would allow RPCDs to work Saturdays if they did not get their 40 hours in during the week? They could not craft language allowing RPCD's to be Tues to Sat if that was their preference. They could not craft language that would disallow the manipulation of OT to the lower wage 22.4s?
It would be at least somewhat less concerning if we could believe the Teamster negotiating team somehow forgot to add a 40 hour guarantee for all RPCDs; that they forgot to introduce language allowing OT to be offered to RPCDs first, etc. We wish we could explain their failure was due to the Teamster leaders being incompetent, ignorant or just plain being outsmarted by UPS.
Lets not fool ourselves; the National negotiating committee and the locals that recommended this steaming pile were not oblivious to the lack of language protecting RPCDs rights to hours.
All the locals who recommended this contract knew exactly what they were doing. They could have afforded RPCDs actual rights to hours and OT.
Instead; they sold us out. It's reprehensible and abhorrent. Can't say we were surprised.
If UPS works 22.4s or T-S drivers on Mondays and you are in the Central States; Grieve it. It is the M-friend drivers' work. Section 16—Extra Work Seniority shall prevail for extra work and the work shall be assigned by seniority,
within the classification and work area.
the Company may create full-time 22.4 combination driving jobs. Such jobs may include inside work. In the event the Company utilizes this
classification,
22.4s are not in a classification that works Mondays. Its our work up to 14 hours on Mondays. 22.4s do not have the right to extra work on Mondays. Grieve it.
