Supervisors working...shocking right.

[PiedmontSteward]

First off I must say I'm newly joined to this fine community, but a long time creeper. Now, Sups have been working non stop (up from just the occasional) for at least 9 months now. My area sup as literally loaded every day since he transfered from twilight over a year and a half ago. Up until recently we've all held our tongues and our grievances, everyone was offered doubles if desired, we were getting ot every week, no one was denied theirs. Ofcourse, it didn't last and one by one the typical cuts occurred. I filed my first grievance in my 8 year tenure for sups working and my coworkers are following suit, but naturally management doesn't want to hear it. I have a really good steward, but honestly hes been stretched thin as the other 2 stewards recently went on disability and grievances are piling up everywhere. Any suggestions to else I can do to get this problem resolved before I retire?

The only way to stop it is for multiple people to file and file often.

If one or two members file, they'll simply get shuffled or moved around to where they can't see. I should know, as this has happened to me about a half dozen times so far in my career.

They only really get scared when they know the grievances can come from any direction.

I would also suggest pushing the BA to appoint at least one or two alternate stewards while the other stewards are out on disability. It's always good to have folks "in the wings" in case the primary stewards change operations/shifts, retire, or just go on vacation. For the record, if the members know how to write a "good grievance" and are good about getting it to the steward in a timely fashion, there's no real "additional" work on the steward. Once I hunt the manager down to sign them off, there's not much difference in one grievance or fifty. If the managers are willing to settle them on the sort level with the steward, it's just another 15 or 20 minutes I get to sit in the office while we try to settle or deadlock on it.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

I loved reading this. If I sit and watch the jam and call for someone to come over. I'm called a lazy do nothing. If I break the jam I'm stealing union work.

That is pretty ironic, admittedly.
We have jobs that are dedicated "jam breakers' because so many supervisors were filed on, for spending their entire night breaking jams in certain places.

So my response to you would be, as a Teamster, breaking one belt-long jam which is an anomaly, is fine. I think you know this.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

That is pretty ironic, admittedly.
We have jobs that are dedicated "jam breakers' because so many supervisors were filed on, for spending their entire night breaking jams in certain places.

So my response to you would be, as a Teamster, breaking one belt-long jam which is an anomaly, is fine. I think you know this.

There are probably more sups on any given sort in your building than I have hourlies. I don't worry about it here, my guys know I don't do stuff to steal their work. I just love reading some of it on here sometimes.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

There are probably more sups on any given sort in your building than I have hourlies. I don't worry about it here, my guys know I don't do stuff to steal their work. I just love reading some of it on here sometimes.

When I go into work, it's an early start so there is another shift running. It's the slowest shift in the hub out of the three main outbounds and there are at good 80-100 sups, not including feeders or automotive or specialists etc...including safety, training, FT's/ lol.

 

[GetTacosOrDieTrying]

I loved reading this. If I sit and watch the jam and call for someone to come over. I'm called a lazy do nothing. If I break the jam I'm stealing union work.

 

[Wayne05]

What local? If you're in the South, no one cares unless the sup's are driving..... Sup's do union work all day every day, while high seniority employees are willingly cut 1-2 hours before new hires (who don't file). I'm not saying it's right, but it's just the way it is.... people take their healthcare, and hustle to their second jobs. Welcome to part time America.

This is how it is in the mountain central hub. Anyone who has seniority is cut (and they usually want to go home). Meanwhile I'm raking in all the overtime because I'm new.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

When I go into work, it's an early start so there is another shift running. It's the slowest shift in the hub out of the three main outbounds and there are at good 80-100 sups, not including feeders or automotive or specialists etc...including safety, training, FT's/ lol.

You see I can't even imagine that. We have 70 people in the building total. Union and management. Everybody knows each other. Heck one of our sups is getting married next weekend and half of the groomsman are hourly drivers (including the Steward) and the other management. We were joking that it will be the most dysfunctional procession down the aisle in history.

 

[tourists24]

You see I can't even imagine that. We have 70 people in the building total. Union and management. Everybody knows each other. Heck one of our sups is getting married next weekend and half of the groomsman are hourly drivers (including the Steward) and the other management. We were joking that it will be the most dysfunctional procession down the aisle in history.

It's good to hear your center can be like that. Here, management isn't allowed to mingle with hourly outside of work

 

[Champ_Here]

I loved reading this. If I sit and watch the jam and call for someone to come over. I'm called a lazy do nothing. If I break the jam I'm stealing union work.

Whenever this happens on my sort typically nobody really cares. The only time we really file on sups working is if they're taking up whole positions (loading/unloading trailers/package cars, fueling/washing/parking cars, scanning/sorting, etc. If they grab an overweight on a roller that was about to crush my leg (this actually happened years ago) I'm not going to file a grievance. It is chicken sh**.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Whenever this happens on my sort typically nobody really cares. The only time we really file on sups working is if they're taking up whole positions (loading/unloading trailers/package cars, fueling/washing/parking cars, scanning/sorting, etc. If they grab an overweight on a roller that was about to crush my leg (this actually happened years ago) I'm not going to file a grievance. It is chicken sh**.

And I completely respect that.

I'm not going to lie. If I was doing hourly work everyday I'd probably ask someone to file on me. Chances are it's because I was told to make due with the employees I have and it would be the only way to get a new one.

 

[TheJoker91]

Whenever this happens on my sort typically nobody really cares. The only time we really file on sups working is if they're taking up whole positions (loading/unloading trailers/package cars, fueling/washing/parking cars, scanning/sorting, etc. If they grab an overweight on a roller that was about to crush my leg (this actually happened years ago) I'm not going to file a grievance. It is chicken sh**.

I agree. In Chema we're not afraid to file but if the supervisor is working to my our lives easier, I'm not gonna file like a bitch. This past month we have Been understaffed and they tried pulling the " we exhausted the extension list so we can clear supervisors for work" bull so there was some filing done.

 

[TheJoker91]

I agree. In Chema we're not afraid to file but if the supervisor is working to my our lives easier, I'm not gonna file like a bitch. This past month we have Been understaffed and they tried pulling the " we exhausted the extension list so we can clear supervisors for work" bull so there was some filing done.

Oh and they have denied a few of them but I'm not going to stop.