Transportation Branch - Business Services Division

Appendix D

APPENDIX D

TRANSPORTATION BRANCH - BUSINESS SERVICES DIVISION

BIDDING PROCEDURES - AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE SECTION

I. BIDDING ELIGIBILITY

A. Current regular employees in the following job classes shall be eligible to id on their permanent work location, work shift, and workweek in accordance with a list of positions as determined by the District:

1. Automotive Body Mechanic

2. Automotive Mechanic

3. Automotive Mechanic (Bus-Truck)

4. Automotive-Parts Storekeeper

5. Garage Assistant

6. Garage Attendant

7. Senior Automotive Mechanic (Bus-Truck)

B. Temporary or other non-regular employees and new employees shall be assigned by the District.

C. Employees returning from illness or other leave of absence of twenty (20) days or more must physically report to work and be on the job at least one (1) full workday prior to the bid meeting in order to be eligible to bid.

D. The number of ten (10) hours per day, forty (40) hours per week positions available for the 1993 bid will be no greater than the number of positions ascertained by Local 99 to have the concurrence of the concerned employees, plus the number of vacant positions designated by the District.

E. The number of ten (10) hours per day, forty (40) hours per week positions available for bid will be no greater than the number of occupied ten (10) hours per day, forty (40) hours per week positions, plus the number of vacant positions designated by the District, plus the number of occupied eight (8)

hours per day, forty (40) hours per week positions ascertained by

Local 99 to have the concurrence of the concerned employees to

be converted to ten (10) hours per day, forty (40) hors per week

positions.

II. BID MEETING

A. A bid meeting shall be conducted only once in any twelve-month period. A bid meeting may be requested by Local 99 or the District and will be scheduled by the District.

If requested by Local 99, a bid meeting shall take place only if a majority of affected Unit C members vote to conduct a new bid. This election for a new bid shall be conducted by Local 99. Both parties shall give reasonable advance written notice to the other of its request to conduct a new bid.

B. The bid meeting shall be at a time and place determined by the District. All eligible bidders who are present at the bid shall be in unpaid status, but shall have two (2) hours credited to their

vacation balance.

III. BIDDING PRIORITY

A. Garage personnel in designated classifications shall be on work assignments in accordance with their placement on the Bidding Priority List. Priority for bidding shall be based on the employee=s date of hire in classification in accordance with the following:

1. When two or more employees are hired on the same date in the same classification, their positions on the Bid Priority List shall be determined in accordance with the following prioritized criteria:

a. Rank on eligibility list.

b. Total District seniority in regular assignments.

c. By lot.

2. Employees returning to District employment after termination (except for layoff) shall not be credited with bidding priority earned in previous employment.

3. Date of hire in regular status in the class shall be used to determine bidding priority. However, if the employee:

a. Was laid off and then re-employed, the original date of hire in class shall be used. The break in service shall not be deducted.

b. Left the class for other service in the District and then returned to the class, the hire date shall be adjusted by using original date of hire in class minus the break in service, with the following exceptions:

(1) If the employee promotes to a supervisory class in the Transportation Branch and then demotes (voluntarily or involuntarily) to a bargaining unit position, the original date of hire in class shall be used. The break in service shall not be deducted.

(2) If the employee has a change of classification and later returns to the original class:

(a) The original date of hire in class shall be used if the change of assignment is within the Transportation Branch.

(b) The original date of hire in the class minus the break in service shall be used if the change of assignment was outside Transportation Branch.

c. For purposes of this agreement, assignments and positions within the Truck Operations Section prior to July 1, 1992, shall be considered as part of the

Transportation Branch.

IV. BID PROCEDURE

A. Employee assignments shall be made based on the results of the bid meeting. The meeting times and date shall be announced no later than two weeks prior to the respective bid meeting.

B. Copies of the bid lists by class and information about work

assignments, work hours, shifts, locations and supervisors shall be made available at District garages to employees eligible to bid as soon as practicable prior to the meeting.

C. An employee may request clarification of the bid list prior to the bid meeting, provided, however, that the bid list presented and used at the bid meeting shall be deemed final.

D. Bidding shall be in order of the established bid list. An employee who is absent from the bid meeting may submit to the Bid Coordinator a written AAuthorization to Bid@ form designating another employee to bid on his/her behalf. An employee or his/her designee may bid or pass on his/her turn. Employees who pass may rebid at the end of the initial bid process. Each employee will be allowed up to two (2) minutes to bid.

E. Eligible bidders who fail to bid or who are on extended illness or industrial injury/illness leave may select from any remaining open positions available in their classification.

V. FILLING VACANCIES (VOLUNTARY TRANSFERS)

A. When the District determines that there is a vacant position, notice of that vacancy shall be given to the shop steward assigned to each District garage.

An informational copy will also be given to Local 99. Notice will be given for a minimum of five (5) days. The vacant position shall be awarded to the employee with the highest place on the bid list who bids on the position. When no employee bids for the vacant position, it may then be filled from an eligibility list or other list.

B. If the District decides to fill a position vacated by a successful bidder, the vacant position shall be filled according to the following

priorities:

1, The most senior employee in the classification with a transfer request on file.

2. The most senior employee in the classification at the site with a shift change request on file.

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3. The eligibility list or other list.

4. A list of transfer and shift change requests on file shall be published once per pay period.

C. After the Bid Meeting, all shift change requests and transfer

requests will be purged and new requests must then be submitted.

VI. OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

The Union/Labor Management Committee for Mechanics and Garage Operations shall serve as an oversight committee for the bid and shall be able to be on-site observers at the Bid Meeting.

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