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Reminder: Anyone facing lay-off must get a withdrawal card from the Union Hall. You must get the withdrawal card in the month in which your dues are current. PREBIDS: Make the time to go to the Union seniority office to check on any prebids/off job cards you have on file! Don't wait until you are awarded a job you no longer want. And while you are there, ask about any possible job openings or movement due to the people retiring by May 1. Openings may occur in jobs you are qualified for, or that you still have time to become qualified for. So ASK! Remember: you are responsible for your prebids, off job cards, and shift preference cards. Don't blame anyone else if you don't get a job award you THOUGHT you prebid, or if you get an award to a job you FORGOT you prebid! Ask Karen and Woody for help. They are your union seniority specialists, and are there to help you. NEW JOB POSTINGS! ( ) New hourly job postings have been released. By contract, these jobs must be posted as is. See the postings. Click Here! Seniority Contract 2000 Issues *Changes to Seniority provisions *Job Evaluation issues *Continuous Operations & Screw *Compressor Area |
Local 527 online newsletter: seniority office |
Reminder: Anyone facing lay-off must get a withdrawal card from the Union Hall. You must get the withdrawal card in the month in which your dues are current. PREBIDS: Make the time to go to the Union seniority office to check on any prebids/off job cards you have on file! Don't wait until you are awarded a job you no longer want. And while you are there, ask about any possible job openings or movement due to the people retiring by May 1. Openings may occur in jobs you are qualified for, or that you still have time to become qualified for. So ASK! Remember: you are responsible for your prebids, off job cards, and shift preference cards. Don't blame anyone else if you don't get a job award you THOUGHT you prebid, or if you get an award to a job you FORGOT you prebid! Ask Karen and Woody for help. They are your union seniority specialists, and are there to help you. NEW JOB POSTINGS! ( ) New hourly job postings have been released. By contract, these jobs must be posted as is. See the postings. Click Here! Seniority Contract 2000 Issues *Changes to Seniority provisions *Job Evaluation issues *Continuous Operations & Screw *Compressor Area |
2/25/02
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KEEP IN TOUCH Continue to touch base with the Union seniority office and the Union Hall even if you are on lay-off. They can keep you apprised of any movement in the workforce. These are the numbers to call: Union seniority office 432-7972 Union Hall 463-0774 or 463-4003 SHIFT OPTION CARDS Please Note: When you submit a shift option card, whatever option you choose follows you wherever you go. If you have an option card in for the shift you are currently on, but you get bumped (or called back) to another shift anyway, you must go to the seniority office to change your option choice. Failure to do so might result in being held onto a shift you don't want to be on if you are bumped again! See Mike and Karen in the Union Seniority office for more information. OFF-JOB CARDS If you are cut back or bumped out of your occupational grouping, you are off-job from that job code. However, if you are cutback / bumped from your job, but bump within your occupational code (or if you receive a job award to another job code), you are NOT off-job. Example: 1. You are cutback / bumped from a 5105, and you bump into a 1406. You ARE off-job from the 5105. 2. You are cutback / bumped from a 5105, and you bump to a 5106. You are NOT off-job from the 5100 occupational group, because you bumped within it. 3. You are a 5105, but receive a job award to a 2705. You are NOT off-job from the 5105, because you elected to leave that job code for another. Submitting an off-job card to a general occupational group (such as 1406, 0506) does not give you 'preference' to any job in that group. General occupation code jobs are filled in seniority order: that is, the most senior bidder will receive this job. Only in job codes that are not general occupation group will the off-job card take preference over a bidder not in the occupational group. For clarification, see Mike and Karen in the Union seniority office. |
