extranatty
Well-Known Member
We had a big mess today in Preload as it as far heavier than anticipated and the prior shift was still working until 5:30, over an hour into our shift. The belts had to be shut down for a half hour, can't imagine what was going on in the sort isle. I worked 2 hours overtime and then just left with a 
load of packages on the belt that couldn't fit into the trucks. There's no way any airs were delivered by 10:30.
Anyway, around 6:30 am the head of safety and the dispatch guy came in and started splitting/breaking jams. Not very helpful but they were there, they have walkie-talkies, and we must've asked them a hundred times when break was. Turns out break was at 6:50 am and at 6:53 I asked the dispatcher and he said "No, the belt is just stopped". Mind you this isn't a part of the hub where we can actually hear anything and we're always backed up so it's impossible to tell.
Later the supervisor says "no break today". Now it's just 10 minutes (for all of us), but I have a bad foot and shoulder and really needed that time to rest. Another was constantly asking as she was starving and wanted to visit the food truck. It's not about the 10 minutes, more so that they constantly try to take that 10 minutes away from us among everything else. I've had supervisors who expected me to work during break. And most don't tell you when it's break.
Furthermore they edited my clock and stole time. They're constantly shaving 10-20 minutes off my working time. Today it was 30 minutes and I expect they may revise it further. The union steward even came at the time and was asking if they're paying me for working early and he was reassured "of course, he'll get paid". Nope.
So I'll talk to the union steward tomorrow as he witnessed it but what should I expect from the grievance process? Don't want to belisted. And I'm completely excluding the safety issues, the rain was pouring into our work area today and the floor was slippery. In front of the safety guy.
load of packages on the belt that couldn't fit into the trucks. There's no way any airs were delivered by 10:30.Anyway, around 6:30 am the head of safety and the dispatch guy came in and started splitting/breaking jams. Not very helpful but they were there, they have walkie-talkies, and we must've asked them a hundred times when break was. Turns out break was at 6:50 am and at 6:53 I asked the dispatcher and he said "No, the belt is just stopped". Mind you this isn't a part of the hub where we can actually hear anything and we're always backed up so it's impossible to tell.
Later the supervisor says "no break today". Now it's just 10 minutes (for all of us), but I have a bad foot and shoulder and really needed that time to rest. Another was constantly asking as she was starving and wanted to visit the food truck. It's not about the 10 minutes, more so that they constantly try to take that 10 minutes away from us among everything else. I've had supervisors who expected me to work during break. And most don't tell you when it's break.
Furthermore they edited my clock and stole time. They're constantly shaving 10-20 minutes off my working time. Today it was 30 minutes and I expect they may revise it further. The union steward even came at the time and was asking if they're paying me for working early and he was reassured "of course, he'll get paid". Nope.
So I'll talk to the union steward tomorrow as he witnessed it but what should I expect from the grievance process? Don't want to be
listed. And I'm completely excluding the safety issues, the rain was pouring into our work area today and the floor was slippery. In front of the safety guy.
