opelmanta1900 wrote:Union Experience
AFP, a French corporation doing food production in the central valley... i was working in the laboratory... lab techs got slammed with testing, we were running behind and the water dispenser we used for testing ran out of water, so our manager grabbed a bottle real quick and replaced it...
The lazy sacks of crap that had been hiding behind the union instead of standing behind the work they did, immediately stopped working and reported the manager for taking work away from union members...
He was fined $500 And had to take a training course on union work... and of course, production had to stop because the lab workers had stopped so nothing was being cleared and the warehouse was backing up with held product...
^ +1....I've experienced some of this myself 1st hand
When I first got into a union shop one of the managers was a family friend from when I was a kid, one day shortly after being hired I saw him at work,and we stopped for a minute and were talking about the upcoming football season. A little while later two union reps pulled me aside and let me know that union members did not chat with management...if a discussion was taking place with management my union rep needed to be present.
Later,at a holiday get together my family friend told me he got called into a meeting with the union and other upper management people and was reprimanded and given a written warning for fraternizing with a union member with no union representation present...it was BS,work was not mentioned once in our chat...
I lasted another 8-9 months and quit....pay was great, but it's harder to find ways to f*ck off than it is to actually do the work they're paying you to do