Dublin Bus tables conditional pay offer of 12%
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I've avoided posting here for so long, but then I realized I have an account already. Whoops.
You're making one wrong assumption here, @Citrus_8, but it's an assumption that I understand where it's coming from, given that I was equally mistaken up to five years ago.
The Central/Eastern European scheduling method of creating a day-long 16-18-hour bus diagram and cutting it in two to make two shifts of about 7-9 hours each doesn't exist here. Your entire thinking method is flawed as a result.
Dublin Bus shifts take one of the following two forms: either a longer shift which involves work on two different buses (although sometimes by accident it happens to be the same bus on the second half anyway) with a technically unpaid break in the middle, or a shorter shift that involves work on only one bus of up to six hours (called a 'workout'). On that note, Dublin Bus stipulates that no driver will work more than 5h30 on one bus without a break.
Drivers take their breaks completely independently of their buses. Most of the times they simply leave the bus at a terminus, or hand it over to another driver to continue the trip. They can do whatever they want with their break time, and return to pick up their second bus. This construction method however leaves Dublin Bus with effectively four shift types: early, middle (aka reliefs), late, and a weird hybrid that can be a split but actually usually isn't - the bogey.
The current agreement regarding Mon-Fri duties seems to be this: early duties do most of the morning pull-outs and finish by 4pm, relief duties start after 11am and finish by 10pm, late duties start after 2pm and are anything that finishes after 10pm, including all the last bus pull-ins. Bogey duties are a mixture of the last morning pull-outs and the first early car break covers, and finish by 8pm.
Disclaimer: this graph illustrates the maximum start times and maximum finish times, not the maximum spreadovers! All duties but bogeys are capped at 9h59 spreadover, and bogey duties are capped at 12h spreadover.
Anyway, as a result of this, if a schedule has a bus working from say 5am to 1am, it's very likely there will be five different drivers working the bus, if not even six. For a very extreme case, the Mon-Fri bus 32-39 is worked by eight different duties, spanning 21h10 out on the road (24-39 is on the road for 23h25 yet is worked by only seven drivers) - this bus works 39As only.
Your suggestions of introducing Central/Eastern European-style shifts wouldn't ever be welcome simply because the workplace organization here is built so drastically different, and there isn't enough terminus space for so many buses to lay over during break times anyway. The practice of leaving the bus behind to be worked by somebody else is pretty much the standard across the British Isles to begin with.
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As for the "why aren't drivers skipping work sacked" question... well, it's bloody difficult to get sacked in DB. I know there are cases of drivers using their phones in the cab and being warned so many times and nothing is done, and that's one of the major safety hazards nowadays. Pretty hypocritical from a company so hard-driven on safety during the hiring process.
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I also want to highlight one thing that has been genuinely irritating me in this discussion - where in the proposed agreement did it ever mention that shift and bogey rotas would be mixed?!
I realize that p. 19 lists the possible driver categories, but I'm under the distinct impression that this list of four items refers to six different rosters...!
- 5/7 shift roster and 5/7 bogey roster
- Static Sunday bogey
- Mon-Fri shift roster and Mon-Fri bogey roster
- 4-day week roster
I mean, it's on DB for such ambiguity, but not for one minute do I imagine that they would mix shift and bogey rosters together when they've been separate for so long... Heck, even the previous page states that the current marked-in bogey positions will be maintained.
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