Well,....If it's voluntary,...and by seniority, ....there's nothing wrong with it. We've had a senior guy bump the on call dock guy for the Thanksgiving week just so he could work Wednesday into Thursday morning and get time-and-a-half for all hours worked plus sixteen hours hours holiday pay. Pretty decent paycheck for four days work,........But the work was available only if you wanted it. Our UE guy took an eight hour sick day on his third starting clock punch,....and then got a ten hour holiday...he's on 4/10's,....and an eight hour holiday. He didn't want to work into Thanksgiving morning, and the holiday on 4/10's is his fourth starting clock punch. All voluntary, with a little planning to maximize your earnings. But I think it's absolutely wrong for a dispatcher to call out a road guy in the 24 hour, or 48 hour period of a holiday. I think Brother Shrink Wrap made a good point about dispatch trying to deplete the road board so they could use Purchased Transportation over the holidays, and no one would be able to grieve it. This is the first year for using PT through the holidays,....and I find it rather suspicious that this is the first year that they didn't make a concerted effort to get road guys in for the holidays, and only run voluntary runs. I think we'd better start asking some serious questions about holidays and PT, and dispatch taking advantage of both. Christmas falls on Wednesday and Thursday of this year. In 40 years of trucking,........with some of the slimiest carriers you can think of,.....I've never worked on Christmas. I would be violently angry if dispatch even hinted to suggest I would have to work on Christmas. I think we'd better start asking to see the MOU that allows a "forced" dispatch on a holiday. All of those type of MOU's would be in the Supplements,....and Local guys would've had to sign off on them. Let's see if they have the brass testicles to wave a paper in front of a guy and tell him he's ..."forced"...to go out Christmas morning. If......there is NO paper,....no MOU,.....Then they CAN'T fire you,....There IS NO GROUNDS for firing.....No Article,...No MOU. Any management type who would threaten to fire a guy,....without having written grounds,...is flirting with Labor Board charges.......