Re: “A fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay"
As to supervisors not working WE CAN WORK IF NOT ENOUGH COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNITS (i.e. hourly employees) SHOW UP TO WORK. IF THE BUILDING IS SHORT PEOPLE BECAUSE OF ABSENTEEISM I WILL BE WORKING BECAUSE, IN THE UNION CONTRACT, IT SAYS I CAN. GRIEVE ME AND IT WILL BE OVERTURNED, SO TELL YOUR CO-WORKERS TO SHOW UP TO WORK SO I DON'T HAVE TO WORK.
Incorrect. Nice try though. -- If its been established that the building needs, say, 50 people to run effectively, and management PURPOSELY only keeps exactly 55 or so people on staff (refusing to hire extra workers), then allow extra vacations, never say no to option day requests, don't call up preloaders/ask drivers to stay late, etc, and can only absorb 1-2 absences a night...trust me--if you get grieved, its not getting overturned.
Throw a temper tantrum all you want. Bluff all you want. Say the person filing won't even get the check--the high seniority person will--so we just might as well not file. I can't blame you for doing any that--its not coming out of your paycheck. But when that Sup-working grievance hits the desk, someone is going to be cutting a check to that Union worker......ESPECIALLY when you Sups are too chicken-***** to make feeder drivers work as directed, up to and including hopping in a trailer and unloading on days you're quote-unquote "short".
......For the record, I haven't filed a sups-working grievance. Also for the record, I've never (and I do mean, NEVER) heard of someone filing a sups-working grievance not getting a payout. Multiple years in. Not. One. Single. Time.