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| Trancealot |
yestarday at the end of work my bosses(I have 2) weird but..they told me the union our company works with went on strike. That means us, front office people and management have to work 12 hr shifts(7am-7pm) including breaks. Instead of doing my typical Mechanical engineering ish I am working on the CNCs, lathes and boring stuff thats these union guys do:nervous:
On one hand I feel bad if they are being offered a contract or I am mad I have to do their task until someone else can replace the union or they come back.
I hope we get some reimburstment for these crazy 12 hr days. Has this happened to anyone before?
I think they are getting 1% a year raise and they want 4%. |
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| Aristronica |
| and on the other hand? |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aristronica
and on the other hand? |
He covered it...
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancealot
On one hand I feel bad if they are being offered a contract or ["the other hand" starts here] I am mad I have to do their task until someone else can replace the union or they come back. |
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| Trancealot |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
He covered it... |
sad thing is some people in the union are happy what they make but this vote they had a few days ago f'd everything up for them also.
break over: Back to work
*Loud whitsle blows,... funny thing is our company uses school bells as break time starts and ends:toothless |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancealot
sad thing is some people in the union are happy what they make but this vote they had a few days ago f'd everything up for them also. |
Well that's bound to happen in a system that treats workers as a homogeneous collective instead of individuals, also known as US labor law. |
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| dj_alfi |
what? you're doing someone elses work? :wtf:
doesnt your contract clearly state what your tasks are?
and of course you have to be paid overtime (unless 12 hr-days are normal for you) and reimbursment for doing someone elses work...
i would demand at least 150% for hrs exceding 9 hrs doing normal work.. i'd never go for less than 200% payment doing something i wasnt hired to do.. |
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| Jarvmeister |
| There's a law against this sort of thing in the UK. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jarvmeister
There's a law against this sort of thing in the UK. |
yeah, and the rest of the world as well, i believe.. hehe
it strikes me as funny that the US, the "leader of the world" (keep yur panties on, u know what i mean), has one of the worst laws regarding employees and such... Hehe, sounds like fun having worse conditions than a korean sweatshop :P |
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| Trancealot |
| Seems my company booklet left me out of any scenerio to get extra cash for extra hrs. I will only receive comp hrs if needed. Thats if I need a few hrs off during the day :conf: Dag this compnay screws the union and myself. :whip: |
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| leebates1986 |
| cnc's are to work on, i feel for you :) |
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| colonelcrisp |
| note to self..... never work in the US. In canada it is illegal for a company to use its non unionized workers to do union work if the union strikes. not only that but a person holding a Peng. doing engineering work could legally tell his boss to stuff it if his boss asks him to do that kind of work and his boss cant fire him. you may want to check your local labor codes to see if what your boss is asking you to do is in fact legal. |
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| Dj O'Callaghan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancealot
yestarday at the end of work my bosses(I have 2) weird but..they told me the union our company works with went on strike. That means us, front office people and management have to work 12 hr shifts(7am-7pm) including breaks. Instead of doing my typical Mechanical engineering ish I am working on the CNCs, lathes and boring stuff thats these union guys do:nervous:
On one hand I feel bad if they are being offered a contract or I am mad I have to do their task until someone else can replace the union or they come back.
I hope we get some reimburstment for these crazy 12 hr days. Has this happened to anyone before?
I think they are getting 1% a year raise and they want 4%. |
Call in the mafia to sort them union ******s out. Sounds we've had to have pay freezes in my office before, but never had our hours and job tasks changed.
Demand extra money, anti social hour pay etc. If your not trained to use the equipment tell them to off and get some monkey to go and do it.
Even though the union guys have a point as 1% is a raise. However if I was made to work extra hours on boring projects they should be doing I would be quite pissed off twith them. |
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