There is transfer language in the contract. However, ABF does not like people to retain their seniority....... They prefer you would quit and start over.
We lost a case involving transfer when the Pgh. terminal had 7 guys retire in January, and we had two guys on the seniority list in Greensburg......25 miles away........ who were laid off and working casual at Pgh . They presumed they would be transferred in at the bottom, but retaining company seniority for fringe benefits.
Not the case. ABF hired 7 guys off the street and refused to hire the existing employees who were working casual. Quit using them. Of course we filed a grievance,......it went down to that snakepit known as ERJAC , and they ruled against us on the flimsiest of pretexts.
One guy quit in disgust, and the other eventually lost his house in bankruptcy proceedings..........
Our new Freight Director should be familiar with the case,...... he sat on the panel. I still have my 60 pages of evidence, and the companies' one page rebuttal ( We Don't Want to Transfer Those Two Guys).....and the decision of the committee........ which was a complete insult...... from which there was no appeal.....