re: #417 Walter L. Newton

I have half-hearted support of unions. I am represented by a union, but I am not a member. Our store is too far from Denver proper to be a union store in this division, but all the employees at my store are represented by the UFCW. Our store follows all the points of the union contract in our region. But we don’t pay union dues, and we can’t vote on union issues.

I find the union helpful (and probably needed) in a number of areas,, and in other areas, I am totally against some practices.

For me, the most annoying process is seniority. I’ve been at the store almost a year (on the 31st of March). We have 20 cashiers, and we haven’t hired any new cashiers since I was hired almost a year ago. Ergo, I’m on the bottom of the seniority list.

And as normal, shit rolls downhill, and I get the leftovers of hours, schedules and I have to pick up the slack when there are holes to fill in the schedule.

I don’t see how it is good for a business to have some of the most productive employees in a position that they can’t be scheduled at the most opportune times for the day to day running of the business.

I am in the top half of productive cashiers. I score high on speed, customer service and etc. Yet, some of the most unproductive of the cashiers will get scheduled during the hours that the store should be supplying the customer with the most customer service oriented visit. All because they have seniority.

I don’t think that is good for the company, it doesn’t support employees who are working to be the best, it doesn’t help the customer, it seems to be a negative objective in many cases.

Too bad for you. My wife is a member of the AFM Local 433. If you aren’t a member of a union, you will soon find out how you are being fucked in the ass. Sorry, but that’s the way it works. That’s why Unions were created and prospered. The fact that industry has bought off elected officials to the tune of billions of dollars to crush unions should make you, as a prospective member of the middle class, understand how screwed you are without Union bargaining capacity.

You are so scrrewd.