There are currently no guarantees on the bids or newly certified terminals. The guarantees start on the first full workweek. A job bid is done twice a year(semi annual). The bid must be posted for 14 days. How do they assign the guarantees until the bid is done? The only way is by the top 90%. There is no other way. The intent of article 18 sec.2 was always 90% of all fulltime jobs. There has never been a time when a job was not bid. The unscheduled are bid also and are not excempt from the total. No where does it say that unscheduled are not BID JOBS. it only states that the company has a right to have sufficient # of unscheduled fulltimers to handle unscheduled and extra(work under consideration) ad hoc work. If they are not bid, then how do you assign them? Basically I am saying that the way the company interpited this article is a stretch at best and complete nonsense in reality. In my first pre-hearing we asked the labor manager what would stop the company from offering no bid jobs, there by, have no guarantees. His answer was "oh we wouldn't do that.' BULL SH!T If they thought they could get away with it they would have. So they knew they couldn't, so they conjoured up this Ad/hoc B.S. and hoped we would all lie down and accept it. 'WRONG!"
