Maybe I was being too enigmatic.
If your Local Union is not providing suitable representation, by all means....
Follow up with NLRB charges.
Have you confronted them "on the record" @ a monthly meeting ??
That's where you should start.
If a grievance has been filed, and not heard yet (at the Local level)
You are going to have to force the issue. There is always 2 sides, to every story.
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When we bring these issues up at the local membership meeting the principal officer starts slamming the gavel and yelling "you're out of order!" to shut the conversation down.
There are at least two sides to every story but typically one side is telling the truth and in this situation there are plenty of witnesses to that fact. The weakness is not on the members side it is on the local.
We had pages of documentation to those violations a couple years ago and somehow the information got stolen out of the stewards briefcase when he left the room to get some more documentation during hearings. The investigation was done thoroughly. The labor manager was very concerned. They were busted but due to the dissappearance of the evidence we had to withdraw the grievances with rights.
Proximity stops are what the interpretation was grieved on this year and that is still sitting on the business agents desk... for months.
No local hearing, no phone call from the business agent about any hearing date being set up pertaining to that interpretation and there's many other grievances still sitting there from as far back as at least July, 2016.
That is the only story. But there's a lot more to this story that has been going on for years.
We wish it was as easy as a Paypal payment to fix this mess because it would be a lot cheaper what we've suffered for too long.
