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<blockquote data-quote="MtlSphere" data-source="post: 1033146" data-attributes="member: 39966"><p>With more than 300,000 employees it is statistically impossible to devise work rules that make all the employees happy. The company knows this and uses it to their advantage. The union seeks a one-size-fits-all contract and the company seeks gray area. I am a 32 year employee. My greatest concern is excessive overtime. The spirit of the language reflects that every employee wants to work. As a result time-off language is vague and contradictory across the articles. In the same vein the union never takes the position that a member can refuse work, such as bringing the car back at 9.5 and shutting it down. Instead the language, in effect says, work'em all you want...it's just gonna cost ya. With the hope that the cost will become too great to pay and result in reduced over-time. Let's be clear...this won't happen. Because any alternative to working us excessive overtime will always be more expensive than paying our wages and grievance penalties. Read that as we're cheap labor and don't doubt it. If there were a more cost effective way rest assured the company would use it. So, a fundamental change is required to reduce overtime. Just what is that fundamental change? Hell, I don't know. We have a contract that states we are not to work in excess of 9.5 hours a day. In our building you have to opt-in for that protection and only after you have worked more than three over 9.5's in one week! It takes three more over 9.5's in a week before you can file a grievance. That's six days over 9.5 before you can begin to think about relief. I, for one, want to be able to file on each and very day I work more than 9.5 hrs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MtlSphere, post: 1033146, member: 39966"] With more than 300,000 employees it is statistically impossible to devise work rules that make all the employees happy. The company knows this and uses it to their advantage. The union seeks a one-size-fits-all contract and the company seeks gray area. I am a 32 year employee. My greatest concern is excessive overtime. The spirit of the language reflects that every employee wants to work. As a result time-off language is vague and contradictory across the articles. In the same vein the union never takes the position that a member can refuse work, such as bringing the car back at 9.5 and shutting it down. Instead the language, in effect says, work'em all you want...it's just gonna cost ya. With the hope that the cost will become too great to pay and result in reduced over-time. Let's be clear...this won't happen. Because any alternative to working us excessive overtime will always be more expensive than paying our wages and grievance penalties. Read that as we're cheap labor and don't doubt it. If there were a more cost effective way rest assured the company would use it. So, a fundamental change is required to reduce overtime. Just what is that fundamental change? Hell, I don't know. We have a contract that states we are not to work in excess of 9.5 hours a day. In our building you have to opt-in for that protection and only after you have worked more than three over 9.5's in one week! It takes three more over 9.5's in a week before you can file a grievance. That's six days over 9.5 before you can begin to think about relief. I, for one, want to be able to file on each and very day I work more than 9.5 hrs. [/QUOTE]
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