Originally Posted by
Flaps50
I think minimum implies the lowest downside of 48, but it wouldn't make sense that you could go somewhere in between or they'd just lower it by 3 hours and furlough. There is no protection in the language if you can stop anywhere between BLG and a min of 48/60.
You're correct... there is no protection with this clause. The clause specifies a minimum but no maximum. We've long operated with the current minimum BLG, and no bidpack BLG anywhere near that minimum. Only now are we seeing BLGs that are down to the minimum.
This contract allows the company to merely announce a minimum BLG reduction, "to prevent furloughs", then they can write bidpacks with whatever BLG they want above that minimum... no need to even be below 60. What we need is a BLG cap before furlough, but unfortunately, that's not what we negotiated.
If I'm misreading the contract, will someone point out the language that restricts the company to some maximum (e.g. 60) once they've lowered the minimum to 48?