Question 12
You asked: I recently learned that Y days was once available to ops based on the fact that ops do not have access to the mandate of paid coffee breaks. Why would the union negotiate that away?
Let’s get into it.
I regret to inform you that your information source has misled you. I started in 1975 and there were no “Y” days then. I left in 1982 and returned in 2004 and there were no “Y” days in the CBA when I returned. I am most certain that in the years in between they were not negotiated into the agreement and then removed before I returned.
There are two other comments that I will make. The issue of “paid coffee breaks” is under the jurisdiction of the Employment Standards Act (ESA). There has been a “legislated exemption” for bus drivers from that aspect of the ESA.
Finally, “Y” days is a computer designation for a previously unscheduled day off. That is simply how payroll codes that day. The office staff I am told DOES have “Y” days that they have negotiated into their agreement but, as I have said previously, we have never had them.
Thank you for your question.