Work UNTIL proven guilty. We used to have it but no more.
Our local seems content to let them fire guys left and right even when innocent.
Then they get the guys jobs back but no back pay even when they were not terminable offenses.
They say well it will get deadlocked and you are looking at 6 months easy and a year is rather likely. I know you are innocent and never should have been fired but they are offering your job back as time served right now if you don't fight it.
They say if you can afford to sit it out we will fight it but there are no guarantees.
What is a guy going to do. We need a stronger contract and a stronger union!!!
I am not talking about guys who deserved to be fired and are lucky to get their job back. Those guys should be out the 3-6-12 months not the innocent guys. But as I have seen over the last few years the guilty come back as quick as the innocent ones.
We have even had INNOCENT drivers say at the local hearing "hey I am innocent but I need to pay my mortgage, feed my kids, pay the insurance" to the union rep. They say screw it, I will take it as a 1 or 2 week suspension right now. Let me go back to work.
The least the union should be able to do is get the good guys and the innocent ones back right then and there. The guilty ones should have to sit out for another month or two. BUT NO, the union can not even get that right! The guy with his first fender bender in years gets denied same as the dufus with the 4th tier 3 in 5 years. Then like clockwork they both come back in 2-3 months.
What a friggin joke. The innocent guy becomes disgruntled and the guilty guy gets another pass!!!!
HOFFA has to go!