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In reply to the discussion: We romanticize manufacturing jobs when what we really miss are unions. [View all]librechik
(30,674 posts)They never do anything management wouldn't like, and they turn a blind eye to scheduling abuses like 7 day 12 hr shift and then oh surprise you can turn that around and do seven more, or take a (1) day off but come in extra early your next shift (effective time off less than 24 hours)
What can get them to stand up for us? Right now hubby is just saying thank god I'm getting paid time and a half, but they treat everybody at the shop the same way. Shit without warning--no alerts when they radically change your coming- in time, combined with brutal rules about being late or calling in. Days off have to be scheduled a year in advance.
This union is AFL-CIO, BTW. Yeah, you'd think, right? We get nada from the union. They used to be GREAT back in the 70s.The benefits were actually human. They have fallen off considerably.
I wish that era would return, but hubby says, yeah--that's when we were run by the Mafia.