What'dyabringmetoday???
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I believe that I have made myself quite clear from the beginning. Not sure if you are having some fun or if I do not do well with making a point.OH now you make that distinction You had said delivery and feeder ; air operations are shuttle, delivering, meet points, airport runs, exception work ( grounds included) as you are probably aware. Most of that work, other than the airport shuttle work, is PT oriented.
The use of PT and FT drivers for delivery of FT ROUTES, more like you were saying, are spelled out in supplements. Every region is different. Some regions have PT covers, some have PT or FT seasonal covers, some have FT bid area covers...then you have locals that negotiate their own deals (705 for ex)
It is difficult to stand together when each region is different, but I agree in principal.
Do you really think the company wants more FT jobs and less PT, throwaway high-turnover jobs? Do you believe the union wants more FT jobs? When the PTers contribute (at least here) more dues $49/mo versus $66/mo for FT. Also, the initiation fees from new hire turnover would be curtailed if the stability of mostly full time jobs entered the picture at UPS. Less jobs = less dues money. less turnover = less initiation fee. Seems like less money for union, unless pension/benefit monetary contributions were bumped up.
I definitely do not understand some of your points. At this point, there are part-timers working over 40 hours a week. As I stated, the work is not going to change by changing the CLASSIFICATION of the workers that are going over 40 hours. It WOULD change their rate, guarantees, AND, unless I am mistaken, would INCREASE the amount of dues money. You would have the same amount of work, being done by the same amount of people, only those people that work over 40 hours would now be full-time. Maybe I am missing something.