Overspeed said:
If the new policy restricts CCs from CS'ing with AMTs because they must be qualified that's a contract violation. There is a process for CC temp upgrades if there is no CC on duty in the TWU CBA. First person to get denied a CS because they are not CC qualified should file a grievance.
Why does the C/S policy violate the contract? If the crew chief gets denied a C/S because the person that he or she is to C/S with is not A1 or a crew chief, where in section 12 paragraph (f) spells out that requirement? If it's there, I can't find it. Now if the crew chief is absent because he or she has a C/S off and the acting crew chief is not given to the person as spelled out in the contract, now it's a violation of the contract. Temporary crew chief and acting crew chief are two different things. Temporary is a long term vacancy not to exceed a year. Acting crew chief is day to day or not to exceed 60 days. The wording in the contract is below.
(e) Temporary Crew Chief
A Temporary Crew Chief may be selected for a special assignment or a known long term vacancy for a period not to exceed one (1) year, using the Automated Higher Capacity System. The Temporary Crew Chief position will be selected from candidates within the Basic Classification and station where the vacancy exists. The selection of the Temporary Crew Chief will be the same process as a posted Crew Chief vacancy.
(1) At the completion of the temporary assignment, the employee will be returned to his former Basic Classification and work unit/shop/dock.
(2) At the end of three hundred and sixty-five (365) calendar days the vacancy will become permanent and posted to the station using the on-line tool.
(f) Acting Crew Chief
In the absence of a regularly assigned Crew Chief or while in the process of filling an existing or newly created Crew Chief position, an Acting Crew Chief may be appointed to fill the vacancy from within the work unit/shop for a period not to exceed sixty (60) calendar days. In the event a Crew Chief is not available, the appointment will be proffered to the senior pre-qualified employee regularly assigned to that work unit/shop/dock.
The Company may provide lists in each of its work unit/shop/dock at each station on which employees regularly assigned to that work unit/shop/dock may volunteer to be considered for the filling of Acting Crew Chief vacancies under this paragraph. The Company will periodically administer qualifying tests for the positions involved to the employees who have signed these lists and will maintain lists comprised of those
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employees who indicate a desire for pre-qualification and successfully complete the test. Employees who have successfully passed these qualifying tests will, if they are regularly assigned to that work unit/shop/dock, be assigned in order of their Occupational Seniority to fill acting vacancies. Additionally, an employee who has expressed a desire but has not been provided an opportunity to take the qualifications test since the date he transferred into the work unit/shop/dock will be considered to fill acting vacancies in accordance with his seniority, until he is provided an opportunity to test. An employee who refuses acting assignments three (3) times within a calendar year, will be removed from the pre-qualified list for a period of six (6) months.
(1) In the event there are no pre-qualified employees or volunteers, the most senior employee regularly assigned to that work unit/shop/dock will be required to fill the Acting Crew Chief vacancy.
(2) Employees selected to fill Acting Crew Chief vacancies will be entitled during the period so assigned to compensation at a rate not less than that at which the job is rated. An employee assigned to an Acting Crew Chief vacancy in a lower classification will not have his compensation reduced to that of the lower classification.