Is management allowed to videotape workers?

[Bubblehead]

Its not a union thing, its a UPS policy which makes it a gray area. Cases however have been won with videoing of safety violations but only safety violations. So using a video to show a sup working or something like that can be held against you by UPS policy.

That's simply not true.
The only thing that is protected for the Company are things that can be considered "proprietary".

.....and while I believe having part time supervisors doing bargaining unit work is part of UPS's business model, it hardly qualifies as "proprietary".

You want to get a supervisor to stop working, start recording a video of them.
I do it all of the time.

 

[rod]

That's simply not true.
The only thing that is protected for the Company are things that can be considered "proprietary".

.....and while I believe having part time supervisors doing bargaining unit work is part of UPS's business model, it hardly qualifies as "proprietary".

You want to get a supervisor to stop working, start recording a video of them.
I do it all of the time.

How do you stop them from coming back at you saying you are stealing time by videoing and not working or are you doing this off the clock?

 

[Bubblehead]

How do you stop them from coming back at you saying you are stealing time by videoing and not working or are you doing this off the clock?

I do it anytime, and would a relish the opportunity to debate whether I'm "stealing time" from the Company, while recording them "stealing time" from the bargaining unit.

 

[PT Car Washer]

They have been video taping you for years with the camera hidden in you DIAD

It is in the backup monitor. Just tear off a corner of an info notice and cover up the lens.

 

[Bubblehead]

It is in the backup monitor. Just tear off a corner of an info notice and cover up the lens.

That's actually a light sensor, not a camera lenses.

 

[PT Car Washer]

That's actually a light sensor, not a camera lenses.

The drivers in my building would never believe that.

 

[Bubblehead]

The drivers in my building would never believe that.

Mine either.
Always makes me laugh when I see the piece of an info notice stuck over the light sensor.

 

[BigUnionGuy]

Mine either.
Always makes me laugh when I see the piece of an info notice stuck over the light sensor.

We have UPS mechanics as members here, that scoff at that suggestion.

Management probably gets a good laugh too.

 

[Poop Head]

Yes go ahead, lets get rid of the bad seeds. They also can watch the driver by satellite

Observation drones

 

[UPSTeamster Pragmatist]

boring footage for sure. Hate to meet the poor shlep that has to watch that.

 

[iowa boy]

boring footage for sure. Hate to meet the poor shlep that has to watch that.

UPS actually pays someone to look at the telematics data to make sure that we do a complete stop and not a rolling stop at stop signs. I can say with 99% certainty that its not someone at the local level that does this unless they are notified to start watching certain drivers

 

[UPSTeamster Pragmatist]

Absolutely true, doesn't mean they can tell you what they want to tell you anyway.

 

[upsbeernut]

Observation drones

Yes poopey head

 

[cornfed]

They have been video taping you for years with the camera hidden in you DIAD

Bruh if there’s a microphone in there as well, I’m screwed.

 

[just chillin']

You want to get a supervisor to stop working, start recording a video of them.
I do it all of the time.

lol heck 15-20 years ago we would pull our phones out on the preload and just point it at the sups working and they'd stop. most of us didn't even have cameras on our phones! its about that time when they tried to ban beepers and phones and started the hologram sticker phase