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<blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 2565690" data-attributes="member: 14176">The &quot;Safety Committee&quot; here, plays no role in the every day safety of our members.The Company has found a way to bastardize the Article 18 language to make these union committee people into management drones, used to do their work and disguise operational tasks as &quot;safety related&quot; in order to satisfy OSHA and reduce future liability.Despite a 100 signature petition, that I personally presented to the Local at their monthly EBoard meeting last March, numerous unheard grievances, and constant rhetoric, my Local continues to have zero involvement in this so-called union committee.The Company hand picks all the members and anoints their choice as the co-chair.In the 3 individual centers domiciled in my hub, each has their own committee and co-chair.The co-chair position has evolved into a &quot;new job&quot;, where these employees no longer run their bid routes and spend their days shuttling and falsifying delivery records and time cards.They have desks, computers, email, and participate in conference calls.They have preferred, self directed start times, and are afforded unparalleled flexibility in regards to time off and early outs.Three former co-chairs have went on to submit their letters and are now in management.I have grieved for these jobs to be named and bid by seniority, only to see them squander in lethargy.In the end, I&#039;m not sure that the Company has not created a new classification, without negotiating it&#039;s existence or particulars with the Union.In the beginning, I thought it to be a novelty that would surely be deemed wasteful and it would be discontinued, but instead it just seems keep growing like a malignant tumor that nobody wants to acknowledge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bubblehead, post: 2565690, member: 14176"] The "Safety Committee" here, plays no role in the every day safety of our members. The Company has found a way to bastardize the Article 18 language to make these union committee people into management drones, used to do their work and disguise operational tasks as "safety related" in order to satisfy OSHA and reduce future liability. Despite a [I]100[/I] signature petition, that I personally presented to the [I]Local[/I] at their monthly EBoard meeting last March, numerous unheard grievances, and constant rhetoric, my Local continues to have zero involvement in this so-called union committee. The Company hand picks all the members and anoints their choice as the co-chair. In the 3 individual centers domiciled in my hub, each has their own committee and co-chair. The co-chair position has evolved into a "new job", where these employees no longer run their bid routes and spend their days shuttling and falsifying delivery records and time cards. They have desks, computers, email, and participate in conference calls. They have preferred, self directed start times, and are afforded unparalleled flexibility in regards to time off and early outs. Three former co-chairs have went on to submit their letters and are now in management. I have grieved for these jobs to be named and bid by seniority, only to see them squander in lethargy. In the end, I'm not sure that the Company has not created a new classification, without negotiating it's existence or particulars with the Union. In the beginning, I thought it to be a novelty that would surely be deemed wasteful and it would be discontinued, but instead it just seems keep growing like a malignant tumor that nobody wants to acknowledge. [/QUOTE]

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