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We Are Our Own Worst Enemy – What Can We Do To Change This?
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<blockquote data-quote="UPS Preloader" data-source="post: 1094511" data-attributes="member: 29235"><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I'm sorry, my bad... I guess my answer would be it depends. Is there a specific issue you're referring to. As with any issue, ultimately someone needs to be willing to confront management on the issues and file grievances accordingly. In my building, I am one of the only ones willing to do this. They all support me in my efforts, but not many of them will go out on a limb with me. The biggest issue I have in my building is egress. During peak, management was parking a truck in the emergency exit route. When confronted they told me that during peak they can do hatever they want. I disagreed with them and let them know if they did that I would immediately go to the local fire department after the shift to discuss it. Management put the truck there and immediately after the shift I went to the fire department. As promised, at 6:00AM the next day the Fire Captain was there inspecting the building. Management hasn't attempted to block the emergency egress since. Now I am working on the egress issues caused by the pre-loaders stacking out due to the excessive flow. I have been working with management for several week to resolve this and will continue to work with them until the end of the month. After that, if the problem persists I am going to start filing grievances whenever there are significant egress issues. If it continues, after I have a half a dozen or so grievances I will be setting an appointment with OSHA and I'll have all the backing I need to bring them in. (FYI - The local fire captain told me that if the stacking egress issues continue to let him know and he will have the fire chief go in and he will put a stop to it immediately.) I'm hoping it doesn't get to this, but at this point the workloads are excessive resulting in excessive stacking/egress issues and somebody is going to get hurt. Funny thing is, I've file very few grievances over the years and I currently get along very well with the management staff, but I think that might be changing soon. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UPS Preloader, post: 1094511, member: 29235"] [COLOR=#222222][FONT="Verdana"]I'm sorry, my bad... I guess my answer would be it depends. Is there a specific issue you're referring to. As with any issue, ultimately someone needs to be willing to confront management on the issues and file grievances accordingly. In my building, I am one of the only ones willing to do this. They all support me in my efforts, but not many of them will go out on a limb with me. The biggest issue I have in my building is egress. During peak, management was parking a truck in the emergency exit route. When confronted they told me that during peak they can do hatever they want. I disagreed with them and let them know if they did that I would immediately go to the local fire department after the shift to discuss it. Management put the truck there and immediately after the shift I went to the fire department. As promised, at 6:00AM the next day the Fire Captain was there inspecting the building. Management hasn't attempted to block the emergency egress since. Now I am working on the egress issues caused by the pre-loaders stacking out due to the excessive flow. I have been working with management for several week to resolve this and will continue to work with them until the end of the month. After that, if the problem persists I am going to start filing grievances whenever there are significant egress issues. If it continues, after I have a half a dozen or so grievances I will be setting an appointment with OSHA and I'll have all the backing I need to bring them in. (FYI - The local fire captain told me that if the stacking egress issues continue to let him know and he will have the fire chief go in and he will put a stop to it immediately.) I'm hoping it doesn't get to this, but at this point the workloads are excessive resulting in excessive stacking/egress issues and somebody is going to get hurt. Funny thing is, I've file very few grievances over the years and I currently get along very well with the management staff, but I think that might be changing soon. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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