As far as I know UE (utility employees) what you are calling combo (work both road and dock) are at 90% for the first year and top pay is now $24.93. Here is the wrinkle, if you are doing UE work or bid a UE position, you get a $1.00 per hour premium pay. UE drivers are very seldom hired off the street because UE position pay premium (normal pay is now $24.93 and premium pay is $25.93). Sorry it took so long to answer but I'm on a scuba diving trip in Fl.). And no worries, I'm willing to help anyway I can : )Homesick - sorry for so many questions but I just had another one about wages - what are casuals Combo starting out now and once you’re hired full time is it still 24.63 an hour or has that changed with the new ratification?
As far as I know UE (utility employees) what you are calling combo (work both road and dock) are at 90% for the first year and top pay is now $24.93. Here is the wrinkle, if you are doing UE work or bid a UE position, you get a $1.00 per hour premium pay. UE drivers are very seldom hired off the street because UE position pay premium (normal pay is now $24.93 and premium pay is $25.93). Sorry it took so long to answer but I'm on a scuba diving trip in Fl.). And no worries, I'm willing to help anyway I can : )
Yes. I can believe it.I was down in Jacksonville visiting my son who was training for Navy stuff. TDY....as he is assigned to a DDG in Spain.
Been years since I drove down I-77 and I-95......Enjoyed the drive, but I noticed a....slight...increase in mentally-impaired, stupidity-assisted, oblivious-to-disaster driving,........
In some cases,...truck "drivers", even........Can you believe it?
I worked for Overnite/UPS Freight for 39 years. I started in August of1977 and retired in August of 2016. I worked through all the Teamsters organizing campaigns. I don't recall any out right violence carried out by the company. They held meetings to tell us how bad things could get if we voted the union in. As a matter of fact, the company actually treated us better during the organizing campaigns. We had cookouts and food at the terminals. They gave out all kinds of goodies to keep us on their side. We also got better raises during those times.I think you're mistaken in saying the Teamsters...."Beat, coerce, and violently force"..people into joining Unions. There could've been incidents of that in the distant past,.....and corporations would like many people to believe that Unions can only organize in a ...thuggish,...manner,........
But for sheer out-and-out violence,...let's start with the Haymarket riots in Chicago,...started when City policemen beat to death 4 strikers,.....and then we'll go to the Battle of Homestead,...where Pinkerton strikebreakers fought a pitched battle with Ironworkers, when Henry Clay Frick decided to hire an armed force to break the strike,.....
And here in W. Penna,........Everyone knows of the brutality of the Coal and Iron police,....who actually could kill indiscriminately,...and get away with it......
Because there has been violence in the past around organized Labor,.....(....much,...if not all of it started by company instigators...),...
Corporations love to spread the rumor that the only way Unions can attain new members,..is by violence. 10 minutes of research on the internet,...or even better,...an afternoon spent in a library, looking up labor violence,....would dispel that rumor.
If you want something more topical,.....watch the movie "Silkwood",...based on the whistleblower Karen Silkwood, and her violent death at the hands of an immoral corporation trying to hide their misdeeds. That just happened in the '70's........
The amount of ....coercion, threats, discrimination, and intimidation in a Union organizing campaign,.....could be found in looking at the '90's Union campaign to organize Ovenite.........
The company pulled out every dirty trick in the book,.........beat people up,...broke into cars,....fired guys just to intimidate the remaining people.....After several years of thuggish company intimidation,...the Overnite campaign just about failed, with maybe two barns out of several hundred nationwide signing cards to join......
The proof of corporate intimidation? Two years later, UPS bought Overnite.........UPS had a "card-check" agreement in their contract, which said that any new purchase by UPS could join the Union by merely having a majority of the employees sign a card.
Overnite ORGANIZED nationwide in FOUR months with a card-check,.....because the company wasn't allowed to interfere..(Nor was the Union....Heavily watched by the NLRB.....I know because I volunteered to work on that campaign...)......
Ask the UPS Freight guys,.......Anyone from the Overnite days could tell you all about company "dirty tricks"......There's a UPS Freight board on TB......Go over and ask.....
Please don't fall for the company propaganda about brutish Union organizing....Education is the key, Brother......
I worked for Overnite/UPS Freight for 39 years. I started in August of1977 and retired in August of 2016. I worked through all the Teamsters organizing campaigns. I don't recall any out right violence carried out by the company. They held meetings to tell us how bad things could get if we voted the union in. As a matter of fact, the company actually treated us better during the organizing campaigns. We had cookouts and food at the terminals. They gave out all kinds of goodies to keep us on their side. We also got better raises during those times.
I hope you enjoyed your time with your son. Some of the best times I had in life was when I was on TDY. No one seemed to know what you could and couldn't do (within reason).I was down in Jacksonville visiting my son who was training for Navy stuff. TDY....as he is assigned to a DDG in Spain.
Been years since I drove down I-77 and I-95......Enjoyed the drive, but I noticed a....slight...increase in mentally-impaired, stupidity-assisted, oblivious-to-disaster driving,........
In some cases,...truck "drivers", even........Can you believe it?
I hope you enjoyed your time with your son. Some of the best times I had in life was when I was on TDY. No one seemed to know what you could and couldn't do (within reason).
Around here, If you want it you can work it up to 60 hours.How many hours a week does a newbie city driver typically get?
Thank you, what’s the probation period on city p/d? It’s not a casual position it’s full timeAround here, If you want it you can work it up to 60 hours.
Thank you, what’s the probation period on city p/d? It’s not a casual position it’s full time
Thank you very much for the information! I was with Holland for 10 years but on the road side. Does it take 90 days to get heath insurance also?If they hired you as full time, then your probationary period would be 90 days.
It is VERY important that you know the status of your hiring classification. Your steward should reiterate this with you and at least verbally confirm it with management.
As you probably know, there are several hiring classifications, each with different pay scales and qualifying periods. Get it made clear which one you're in. If you are on the probationary/new hire scale, then your name should be added to the bottom of the seniority board. That affects your pension and H & W contributions and eligibility as that establishes your seniority date.
As a probationary/new hire, you can be fired without recourse as long as your dismissal is related to job performance, and not discriminatory or punitive related to Union activity. You still have access to the grievance procedures.....they will start taking out full Union dues.
You are a full fledged member,......and if you are reasonably competent, you will breeze through the 90 day probationary period.
Different Supplements have different qualifiers. As Bro. Homesick said above,....it would behoove you to talk to the steward and get the exact probationary period.
And I misspoke.......The probationary period here in W. Penna. is also 30 days. I got confused with the casual language that says any casual working 90 days shall be added to the list of probationary/new hires........
Terrible to grow old and senile........Luckily, I am incredibly good-looking to offset the senility thing.......
Health insurance in our Supplement is,...once you are on the seniority list, there is a one month qualifying period, a one month waiting period,.and you get your health care on the first day of the third month.
Check your Supplement, though......