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New England Driver's Helpers, Did You Get Your Raise?
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<blockquote data-quote="JonFrum" data-source="post: 286733"><p>IDLWTM,</p><p></p><p>Training others is not part of your job. Somewhere there is a written description of your job, and I doubt that training is listed as one of your job requirements. I think you can refuse to train, but I would definately check with your steward and Business Agent first. On any issue, no matter how right you are, there's always a 50/50 chance they won't back you up. Then you'll be open to a charge of insubordination or wilful "failure to follow" a direct order. The workplace is, by law, a dictatorship! You are obligated to follow almost any order, even one that violates the Contract, unless it is clearly illegal or unsafe. The general rule, as Teamster officials love to say, is "work now, grieve later."</p><p></p><p>Some would say even the official training program is an inappropriate idea because it may lead to bargaining unit members acting like management and becoming involved in evaluating other members, possibly for discipline, and identifying too much with the "other side." Solidarity may suffer. There's also a requirement in the Teamsters Constitution that forbids a member from harming another member.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonFrum, post: 286733"] IDLWTM, Training others is not part of your job. Somewhere there is a written description of your job, and I doubt that training is listed as one of your job requirements. I think you can refuse to train, but I would definately check with your steward and Business Agent first. On any issue, no matter how right you are, there's always a 50/50 chance they won't back you up. Then you'll be open to a charge of insubordination or wilful "failure to follow" a direct order. The workplace is, by law, a dictatorship! You are obligated to follow almost any order, even one that violates the Contract, unless it is clearly illegal or unsafe. The general rule, as Teamster officials love to say, is "work now, grieve later." Some would say even the official training program is an inappropriate idea because it may lead to bargaining unit members acting like management and becoming involved in evaluating other members, possibly for discipline, and identifying too much with the "other side." Solidarity may suffer. There's also a requirement in the Teamsters Constitution that forbids a member from harming another member. [/QUOTE]
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