Supervisor Doing Pick-Off Duty

Yesterday E. demanded a shop steward to be present on his PD [1] due to complications he was having with his supervisor.  E, who is a pick-off for his belt, [2] told me that his supervisor was having him load (which he has no problem with) throughout the night; but while he was loading his supervisor was doing his job by picking off, which is in violation of UPS National Master Contract Article 3 Section 7, which states:

The Employer agrees that the function of supervisors is the supervision of Employees and not the performance of the work of the employees they supervise…supervisors…shall not perform any bargaining unit work…

When a supervisor does work the grieved employee can file a grievance and receive double their daily pay rate for the time the supervisor worked.  E stated that last week his supervisor worked three hours so I informed the Building C supervisor that this had to stop (which he agreed) and that E should receive 3 hours of pay at double his daily pay rate (which he said he would look into).

Lessons

1. When a supervisor is doing bargaining unit work (that is, union work) that is in violation of Master Article 3 Section 7 and should be grieved.  Inform your shop steward of this and then if you can’t resolve the situation by getting a fair amount of pay at double your rate within a five day work period then file a grievance immediately.

Notes

1. A PD is a “Parcel Delivery” area in where a group of workers and one supervisor take packages that are being delivered there by a moving belt and then load those packages into trailers.  There are 12 PDs in my hub.
2. A “pick-off” is someone who is next to a moving belt and then sorts the packages that go by it by zip code and then sorts those packages into specific trailers.