I respect what you are saying, but the phrase part timers scares the crap out of me, Seems once it is in place companies just abuse the heck out of it. I always thought that's what casuals were for. If its like everything else, we are told that they won't abuse it or use it against anybody, Kind of reminds me of the seat belt law. They said it is no big deal, and to start with they would not write any tickets for not wearing a seat belt, but once it was in effect, it became a major infraction, and quite a money maker.
I have a hard time trusting I have seen it to many times, they say one thing, but do the opposite, once it is place. I know another union company that has part timers, and they lay off drivers just to make them into part timers. If part timers are to used they should only be only used if no one is laid off (everybody must be called back to work), and there should be penalties if they work to many part timers, or they work over a percentage of hours, which should trigger the company to hire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!