Wage theft by employers exceeds all burglaries and robbery combined
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it sounds to me like you were treated terribly. How long ago was this? 223 days is near a full year of employment. That is serious enough that you should have sued for recompense. I'm sorry this happened to you, but how is it you are blaming the Union for this? They didn't fire you. The district did. My experiences with my Union have taught me that you have to fight for yourself if you want others to stand up for you. FYI in my 13 years in a Union shop (that i organized and am a steward at), the people that complain about the Union most... are the shittiest workers.
I was being treated poorly for outshining my supervisor and brought into a room for a chat one morning, his admin in a chair next to him. I had gotten attention from other districts for the good works I did and he felt he should have been the one honored.
When the admin is there as a witness, it's not good.
I asked HR for a meeting about what I am and am not permitted to do under contract, my outside work for a nonprofit being one of the reasons I was so successful and I wanted to get things clear.
That was probably reported to the supervisor (a meeting was never had) and it was that time of year that positions are eliminated if needed and I was notified that my position (a coordinator, not teacher on special assignment) was being eliminated.
That was in March, I could have stayed in the same building doing the same work but was instead demoted down to work with the home schooling program. My stepfather had just passed and my mom was on her way out so I just resigned, she passed a month later.
Anyway, there are a lot of ways to piss off admins and sometimes it for doing a better job for kids than they are. There's a lot of graft and grant moneys that get misdirected.
I'm still working with schools, teachers, and students, from the outside.
Good luck in all you do!
