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At a panel meeting last Thursday in Richmond Va. "fill-in" bids were ruled against. Our Union and the Company agreed they violate seniority as to unassigned drivers. All unassigned drivers will be given extra-board bids with start times.
If the work goes to the first unassigned driver how does that violate seniority if all other drivers are on bids?Forgive me for the delay. Now Fill-in class can begin. "Fill-in", a road bid which allows, at times, a junior driver to automatically be assigned a scheduled run, or a call-off, ahead of senior drivers on extra-board, or as is stated in our contract, Art. 5, sec. 7, unassigned work. At our location it is bid as an "800", allowing the least senior {unassigned} to work while senior drivers are denied their "right of first refusal", as to unassigned work. In larger locations the effect might not be the same as in a smaller one, but it violates seniority all the same..
It's not going to the first unassigned, by calling it a "fill-in", or an 800 bid, they are bypassing seniority. If due to a schedule having vacation or a call out it becomes unassigned work. There are only two road classifications, schedules and unassigned, the 800 classification is when they take an out of classification driver, dock-cdl, or city and have them do line-haul, the 800 requires a return to home terminal. The senior unassigned has right of first refusal as per Art. 5, para. d.