ROUTE ELIMINATION. When the Board of Education decides to eliminate one or more bus route(s), the driver with the most seniority who has a route that is being eliminated shall have the right to bump any driver in the District with less seniority. Said driver must exercise said bumping rights within seven working and/or week days or the District will assign a bump within four working and/or week days thereafter. After the bump has taken place for the most senior driver who had his/her route eliminated, the second most senior driver having a route eliminated shall have the right to bump any driver in the District with less seniority. Said driver must exercise said bumping rights within seven working and/or week days or the District will assign a bump within four working and/or week days thereafter. If more than two routes are eliminated, the process will continue in the same manner until drivers for all routes, which have been eliminated, have completed the process. After all drivers who have had a route eliminated and bumping rights have been exercised, persons who have been bumped shall be entitled to bump on a seniority basis in the same manner until the process has been completed. Drivers will be paid based upon the amount that has been paid for the route they selected.
ROUTE ELIMINATION. The Employer shall have the right to reduce, extend or discontinue any routes according to the requirements of said Employer's business, except that the Employer shall not discontinue any assigned route on which delivery during the four (4) preceding weeks shall amount to an average of 1,500 or more cases per week in said four (4) week period unless the Employer and the Union agree otherwise. (For purposes of route elimination, each Pre-Mix Tank and Transfer Tank shall be counted as four (4) cases.) Open routes may be eliminated; the elimination of open routes shall not be used by the Employer as a means of frustrating the bidding procedure set forth in Article 7. Upon completion of the bidding procedures as set forth in Article 7 wherein a route still remains open, the Employer will either eliminate that route or offer to a Route Driver Salesman or Pre-sell Driver/Merchandisers assigned to a comparable type route within the distribution center, the opportunity to be reassigned to such open route. Upon completion of this procedure, the remaining open route may be eliminated.
ROUTE ELIMINATION. If a route is eliminated after the last working day in September the driver who had the route eliminated will not be able to bump any other driver, no matter what the seniority level. If the situation arises where a driver has his/her route eliminated and they become the first substitute, that driver will retain his/her seniority until the next route selection and will be paid at the negotiated pay schedule for the routes and runs they substitute.
ROUTE ELIMINATION. When the Board of Education decides to eliminate one (1) or more bus route(s), the driver with the most seniority who has a route that is being eliminated shall have the right to bump any driver in the District with less seniority. Said driver must exercise said bumping rights within seven (7) working and/or week days or the District will assign a bump within four (4) working and/or week days thereafter. After the bump has taken place for the most senior driver who had his/her route eliminated, the second most senior driver having a route eliminated shall have the right to bump any driver in the District with less seniority. Said driver must exercise said bumping rights within seven
ROUTE ELIMINATION. In the event a route is eliminated by the School District or by the Employer, the displaced employee shall take the last available pick. However, if a vacancy occurs, such displaced employee may pick in accordance with paragraph 7.
