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<blockquote data-quote="anonymous4" data-source="post: 1068641" data-attributes="member: 30532"><p>This is a throw away job the first few years you are here due to the low wages and line of work, the majority will never participate and it is not my life duty to go on such a mission, but the point still remains. It is divide and conqueror and if you don't see that, it's too bad. </p><p></p><p>I am not sure why you are speaking to me as if I am a typical part-timer with my head in the sand. I am the minority by a large margin. Why doesn't the union hand out "quick union facts" along with the union contract right when they start paying dues? Why is there no basic orientation with a knowledgeable steward? These things cost money you say, I say the top should get their act together because to me, that should be a priority worth the investment. The union doesn't care to have an informed part-time membership. Do you think otherwise? If so, why? </p><p></p><p>Personally I could care less what the starting wage is or will be. I am here long term and I will have survived through the more difficult PT years. Most aren't here long term, but they are the ones steering the part-time ranks. You care because you make a liveable wage and this is your lifelong career. I have been to several meetings and I was amongst four other part-timers on all occasions. Pathetic. I am not union leadership, I am not in charge of funds or money allocation. I don't want to be either. I have the right to an opinion as I do pay dues however, and I have to say there seems to be a lack of common sense at the top and it is frightening. I will be interested in what happens as RTW inevitably spreads and how the union will attempt to keep it's membership intact.</p><p></p><p>I file grievances, I try to encourage union participation. Grievances that should be slam dunks get dragged on, leaving me to question why I should place that target on my back when no one around me cares, and more importantly why bother when the union itself seems to pick, choose, trade or stalemate common sense grievances. If I experience this, others must. I have been telling the same supervisor to stop working three times a night for over two months. I have very little to show for it. Sure, I care. Just not enough to go on an epic campaign trying to get one supervisor to stop working and my grievances on that one matter to start having a positive effect. At this point I say to myself, if the process is an impossibility without a monumental effort for what should be simple procedure, screw the union and I will take my money and play elsewhere if given the chance. That is not my failure but the failure of the people who wanted to make change instead of talking about it. </p><p></p><p>Here is our leadership partying it up with some pt soups instead of holding the company accountable for the most basic of contract violations:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/204418-1/Boating-fail-crash-party-hard.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="anonymous4, post: 1068641, member: 30532"] This is a throw away job the first few years you are here due to the low wages and line of work, the majority will never participate and it is not my life duty to go on such a mission, but the point still remains. It is divide and conqueror and if you don't see that, it's too bad. I am not sure why you are speaking to me as if I am a typical part-timer with my head in the sand. I am the minority by a large margin. Why doesn't the union hand out "quick union facts" along with the union contract right when they start paying dues? Why is there no basic orientation with a knowledgeable steward? These things cost money you say, I say the top should get their act together because to me, that should be a priority worth the investment. The union doesn't care to have an informed part-time membership. Do you think otherwise? If so, why? Personally I could care less what the starting wage is or will be. I am here long term and I will have survived through the more difficult PT years. Most aren't here long term, but they are the ones steering the part-time ranks. You care because you make a liveable wage and this is your lifelong career. I have been to several meetings and I was amongst four other part-timers on all occasions. Pathetic. I am not union leadership, I am not in charge of funds or money allocation. I don't want to be either. I have the right to an opinion as I do pay dues however, and I have to say there seems to be a lack of common sense at the top and it is frightening. I will be interested in what happens as RTW inevitably spreads and how the union will attempt to keep it's membership intact. I file grievances, I try to encourage union participation. Grievances that should be slam dunks get dragged on, leaving me to question why I should place that target on my back when no one around me cares, and more importantly why bother when the union itself seems to pick, choose, trade or stalemate common sense grievances. If I experience this, others must. I have been telling the same supervisor to stop working three times a night for over two months. I have very little to show for it. Sure, I care. Just not enough to go on an epic campaign trying to get one supervisor to stop working and my grievances on that one matter to start having a positive effect. At this point I say to myself, if the process is an impossibility without a monumental effort for what should be simple procedure, screw the union and I will take my money and play elsewhere if given the chance. That is not my failure but the failure of the people who wanted to make change instead of talking about it. Here is our leadership partying it up with some pt soups instead of holding the company accountable for the most basic of contract violations: [IMG]http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/204418-1/Boating-fail-crash-party-hard.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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