I assume that mean VOLUNTARILY taken off a route because for all intents and purposes, it is YOUR route for the week.
We have never bid the routes that way. That language is new to us. We’ve always had unassigned drivers select daily.
Everyone in my center at some point while being an unassigned driver have been “instructed” to run a different route than we chose. The only recourse was to file on the difference in pay between our hours worked and of the driver that was given our route. But that only worked if they clocked out after the grievant.
But now we’ll have the two hour penalty so that’s good. That should also apply when some clown decides to, and is permitted to, work a scheduled vacation. Unless they select as an unassigned driver.
I’ve gotten into more than a few verbal battles with the usual suspects over this and their spoiled, god complex, self righteous attitude was palpable each time. They honestly think that their super seniority entitles them to violate the contract. It was so sweet when a couple of us drivers in the lower third of the seniority list (at the time) shut that * down. The looks on their faces when they realized that they weren’t special after all was priceless.They occasionally slip one by when we are short on drivers. I mean it is, in fact, hard to keep all the pests out of the barn. LOL.