"Carryover. Now here’s an interesting subject that generates a lot of impassioned views, seniority dependent of course. Viewed with an addiction analogy, once someone gets hooked on the heroin-type high of continual Draft and Volunteer as the sole means to make it from one paycheck to the next, Carryover then becomes the methadone to deal with the absence of Volunteer and Draft. Is there something inherently wrong with Carryover? No, not in normal times, as it is the “sure” thing if you’re senior enough to hold it and want to subject yourself to continual work at straight time pay. However, when management maintains 686 jobs are in jeopardy and there’s an ongoing 12,000+CHs of Carryover per bid period, then in our committee’s world, we have a problem. We have an even more significant problem when management states their ambivalence to address Carryover while they lament their staffing level. Management does not want to stop Carryover, from their standpoint to do so would create inefficiencies in the system and cost money. There’s that “cost” word again..."



Does that clear up the carryover question for the really slow?