Mavrick70004
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SO first question is something that happened today. We started work early 4:45Pm and ended late at about 11:30Pm. We got a 15 min break at 7, and i asked one of the P/T sups if we were getting 2 15 min breaks or 1 30 min break. He told me that we were getting ONE 15 min break becuase we started at 4:45 and they estimated us to be finished at 10:15 so we would be working under 6 hours. ( we don't even finish at 10:15 on a Friday ) I looked at him and started laughing and then told him "good luck with that". I tried looking through Union contracts but had a hard time finding anything about the meal breaks for P/T's. California law provides that employees must receive a 30 minute meal break if they work in excess of five hours, and 5 hours would have put us at 9:45 sooooooooo where the hell was our other 15min break?? Penalty for improper breaks is one hours pay and i have absolutely no problem confronting my friend/T about it AND informing other loaders, but before i do i wanted to make sure i was not missing anything that is in the contracts ( they are usually good about giving us our breaks when we start early so im not sure what happened today)??
Second problem- If i P/T sup came in to the trailer i was in and told me to go next door and help another loader but then took my place in the first trailer and started loading would that be considered "supervisor doing bargaining unit work" even though i continued to do my work just in another trailer? The other loader was fine on his own so i proceeded to break jams and the sight of the sup sweating his A** off and turning red was worth more to me then money. after about 30 min he put me back in the trailer and when i walked in i yelled "what the hell is this? you call this a wall??" just to rub it in. but i was curious anyway.
Second problem- If i P/T sup came in to the trailer i was in and told me to go next door and help another loader but then took my place in the first trailer and started loading would that be considered "supervisor doing bargaining unit work" even though i continued to do my work just in another trailer? The other loader was fine on his own so i proceeded to break jams and the sight of the sup sweating his A** off and turning red was worth more to me then money. after about 30 min he put me back in the trailer and when i walked in i yelled "what the hell is this? you call this a wall??" just to rub it in. but i was curious anyway.