Won Grievance re: working over 12 hours

Good Ole Greg · Jan 17, 2021

Just in case anybody else is being overworked, this info may help you. I recently filed a grievance for being forced many times to work over 12 hours. I would tell management I was tired or had a headache and their response was to threaten to write me up if I went home.

In my statement I asked for the union to make them stop threatening us with write ups and to let us go home at 12 hours if we aren't feeling well. I also suggested that I should be paid double time, like the penalty pay CCAs receive, for time worked over 12 hours.

The resolution was Management was ordered to cease and desist requiring us to work over 12 hours and they calculated all the time I worked over 12 hours in the last few weeks and I received a couple hundred dollars.

Hope this helps somebody in a similar situation

Itstillfun · Jan 17, 2021

Wow . fresh moving air. Way to get your point across. Rising a toast to the occasion.!

ruralfool · Jan 17, 2021

We tried to file one a couple of years ago when my husband worked consistently past 8 til midnight many many nights, PM threw it out...........oh, if only I knew then what I know now...........

Twingrlie · Jan 18, 2021

ruralfool said:
We tried to file one a couple of years ago when my husband worked consistently past 8 til midnight many many nights, PM threw it out...........oh, if only I knew then what I know now...........

PM can deny the grievance and it goes to step two automatically. Should have been settled at step two. Seems your rep didn’t know what to do here.

RDruckus · Feb 2, 2021

Good Ole Greg said:
Just in case anybody else is being overworked, this info may help you. I recently filed a grievance for being forced many times to work over 12 hours. I would tell management I was tired or had a headache and their response was to threaten to write me up if I went home.

In my statement I asked for the union to make them stop threatening us with write ups and to let us go home at 12 hours if we aren't feeling well. I also suggested that I should be paid double time, like the penalty pay CCAs receive, for time worked over 12 hours.

The resolution was Management was ordered to cease and desist requiring us to work over 12 hours and they calculated all the time I worked over 12 hours in the last few weeks and I received a couple hundred dollars.

Hope this helps somebody in a similar situation

I am ECSTATIC that you filed on this and won, including cash.
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Our subs are overworked, under-compensated and not given the respect they have earned.

csparks · Feb 2, 2021

Shoot, if you'd worked for Starbucks, you'd probably be all over the news, and won millions in a jury trial.

And that's just making coffee.

thinkingfarmer · Feb 2, 2021

Thanks for posting this. It really helps us new folks learn the rules. I have never been in a union before.

Itstillfun · Feb 2, 2021

Knowledge is power. Safety is the key.

Sandygirl · Feb 18, 2021

Good Ole Greg said:
Just in case anybody else is being overworked, this info may help you. I recently filed a grievance for being forced many times to work over 12 hours. I would tell management I was tired or had a headache and their response was to threaten to write me up if I went home.

In my statement I asked for the union to make them stop threatening us with write ups and to let us go home at 12 hours if we aren't feeling well. I also suggested that I should be paid double time, like the penalty pay CCAs receive, for time worked over 12 hours.

The resolution was Management was ordered to cease and desist requiring us to work over 12 hours and they calculated all the time I worked over 12 hours in the last few weeks and I received a couple hundred dollars.

Hope this helps somebody in a similar situation

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