tired of feeder !!!!

[over9five]

If your classified Feeder Driver, you should have won a bid run, and your old pkg route should have went up for bid. Has this happened ?

Or are you considered a Qualified Extra and your old route never went up for bid?

Do you pick your vacations with the Feeder Drivers or the Pkg Center ?

I ask these questions to determine if what you say is true, then you do have a kick ass local/regional representation...

We have biennial bid here. Everyone bids. We can go wherever our seniority takes us. At bid time, I could bump back to my old Package route (or any route/position I have the seniority to acquire).
Thank God. I would hate to be trapped for the rest of my career!

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We have biennial bid here. Everyone bids. We can go wherever our seniority takes us. At bid time, I could bump back to my old Package route (or any route/position I have the seniority to acquire).

Our feeder and package runs are bid at the same time but on 2 separate lists. Both are eligible to bid on either list, provided they are feeder qualified (must wear shorts all year long and know where all of the Dunkin Donuts are.) We do get a feeder driver every now and then who bids back to pkg but it is rare. We do have this one 22.3 who says that he is going to bid a package run every time the sheet goes up but never follows through on it.

 

[tarbar66]

In West Pa. Joint Council 40 the only way a feeder driver can go back to package is if there is a new route bid or if there was a permanent layoff in Feeders (runs cut).

Maybe it has changed in the past couple of years but that is what I knew for over 30 years.

 

[over9five]

provided they are feeder qualified (must wear shorts all year long and know where all of the Dunkin Donuts are.) QUOTE]

LOL! I do local p/us on the job I do now, and SERIOUSLY, I know I pass 14 Dunkin Donuts during my shift!!!!

 

[Old International]

Down here, all you have to do is write a letter, and boom you are out for 2 years. You end up at the bottom of Package senority, until the 1st package car bid, then you can go where ever your full time senority takes you.