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Me to BA: "Steward and others are taking their lunch between 1st and 2nd hour, making extra contract agreements, then taking advantages the company offers them such as stealing time and taking extra breaks during shift among other things"I am a full time steward and about a year ago the BA allowed the company to drag out my sup. working grvnce for 3 months but paid others immediately. I told the BA that I was going to file labor charges against the union if he didn't docket my grvnce to the state panel to be heard the next month. He believed what I told him, docketed it and when I walked into the lobby of the hotel where the panels were being held the Labor Manager told the BA he would pay my grvnce in full.
You paying dues? Stand up for yourself, take the steward and have a little "campfire" talk with the BA. If you don't get it heard asap call the package division of the IBT in Washington DC and light their fuse. They will fix the problem...I guarantee it. This is bull crap.
BA to me: "Ok i'll set them straight"
Next two weeks: steward and others still taking lunch whenever they want,
walking all over the contract,
and then telling management that people like me who won't make side deals and want a lunch when the contract says, are the "problem employees".
What you and everyone else says sounds good, but the only way out are RTW laws so people don't have to pay into a system that doesn't benefit them and only makes their jobs and work environment more difficult because of the corrupt Teamsters.