PRE-BID NOTICES. Employees desiring to change work locations may advise their department head of their desire on a prescribed pre-bid notice, in quadruplicate. One copy will be forwarded to the Department, one to the Union, one to the employee's file, and one to the employee. Such notice shall state the employee's name, badge number, ATU seniority date, classification, present location and location to which he/she desires to move. When a vacancy or new position occurs, the Authority will advise the Union business representative. The Authority and the Union representative will confer to consider applicable pre-bid notice. If there is more than one pre-bid on file, qualification and ATU seniority will govern the selection. If an employee is moved as a result of a pre-bid, all other pre-bids he/she may have on file will be nullified. Employees accepting a pre-bid may not pre-bid again for a period of one hundred twenty (120) consecutive days. New employees will not be permitted to change Divisions by pre-bidding prior to the expiration of their probationary period. The acceptance or rejection of a transfer as a result of a pre-bid must be submitted in writing in duplicate; one copy to the Authority and one copy to the Union. Employees forced to transfer from their division, for operational needs, will have a one-time priority bid (by seniority order) to return to that division when an opening exists in the applicable classification. Then, existing pre-bids will be exercised to fill the remaining vacancies. This does not apply to employees not identified for transfer who volunteer to move or probationary employees at the affected division. If the vacancy is to be filled, management will first seek volunteers using the pre-bid process and if no one volunteers, Article 7, Section G, will apply. When applying the terms of Article 7, Section G, a WEM cannot be forced into a section they were disqualified from.
