Yes, our building is the same. Is it because of special treatment? No. Its because they're not on the belt looking at their load until start time. They take their lunch and breaks near noon each day whether its peak or summer. They don't even upload the EDD until start time. They attend every PCM. Their pick up compliance is 100% every day regardless how many miles out of the way it is. They walk off every stop.
Yes, they go out with less stops. Yes, management is happy to give them off whenever they want. When they take a day off management can add 20-30 more stops.
Yes. That's the only thing that I know of for our steward as "special treatment".In Package, my steward was often sent out with less air. It wasn't special treatment, it was just that he had to represent members in the office every morning so he wouldn't have time to get them all off.
Yes. That's the only thing that I know of for our steward as "special treatment".
Is this because of your lack of involvement?
If not what have you done about it?
Why have so many lost touch with the concept of a union shop?
You get what you give.
This isn't the YMCA, your dues only scratch the surface of what is necessary to maintain the organization.
You guys need to quit bitching and get involved.
Only then do you earn the right to sound off.
He does everything he can about it. I use to work with Just_another_day_at_work. He follows the contract to the letter. He files on every violation, Takes all his breaks, and does his job properly. If every employee in that building ( 4 centers ) did their job like him, there would be a lot more jobs available. Sometimes you guys need to understand the everyone doesn't have English as a first language. Their post may read a bit different some times.Is this because of your lack of involvement?
If not what have you done about it?
Our steward runs an hour and a half or more of bonus each day. He also gave up about 3 grand in supes working grievances so a driver could get his job back. You can be a steward and not be a complete pain in the butt.
Thank you Billy.He does everything he can about it. I use to work with Just_another_day_at_work. He follows the contract to the letter. He files on every violation, Takes all his breaks, and does his job properly. If every employee in that building ( 4 centers ) did their job like him, there would be a lot more jobs available. Sometimes you guys need to understand the everyone doesn't have English as a first language. Their post may read a bit different some times.
Wow, Jesus lives.Yes, our building is the same. Is it because of special treatment? No. Its because they're not on the belt looking at their load until start time. They take their lunch and breaks near noon each day whether its peak or summer. They don't even upload the EDD until start time. They attend every PCM. Their pick up compliance is 100% every day regardless how many miles out of the way it is. They walk off every stop.
Yes, they go out with less stops. Yes, management is happy to give them off whenever they want. When they take a day off management can add 20-30 more stops.
Perhaps it was his grievance and not others though. I'd be willing to give up my personal grievances as a steward to keep the jobs of a employee. To make extra money is what shouldn't happen. Trading them for jobs is a perfectly acceptable trade to me.
I am so tired of poeple that know nothing of what a stedard does, talking about the "special " treatment, relationship, what ever the hell you want to call it, with management.
The fact is we as stewards are required to spend time with management personel at all levels, to protect and defend the membership. Ya, we may talk to the manager in a friendly tone when we see each other on the shop floor, ya we may know a bit more about the management team than the average driver, but you have no idea wgat goes on behind those closed doors, and I am quit certain most of you do not ever want to know. (based on the level of involvement at the local). Until you have walked in the shoes of a steward, do not talk bad about them, in fact why don't you thank them every once in a while for the time they spend working for your protection!!!
One of the biggest challenges of being a steward is to remember that you wear more than one hat.
I am on friendly terms with many of the management people I work for. I will come into the office and chat with them, make jokes etc. But when its time to represent a member, I have to take that "friend" hat off and put the "steward" hat on because the relationship is now by definition adversarial. And once the meeting is over and the business has been resolved...I have to take that "steward" hat back off again because when I leave the gate and get to my first stop in the morning, I have to be wearing my "professional employee" hat. The customers I deal with do not need to know about any labor issues that are occuring in the office, they just need a professional to provide them the service they are paying for.
Friends are friends, the contract is the contract, and business is business. Its important to keep them seperate.
This should have never happened! WHo is to decide what grievances are important? What about the people that had that $3,000 coming?
Each grievance should be heard for its merit. If the driver was dirty than he should be fired, if not thats what the grievance procedure is for.