number one new yournk hater


finding out at the union meeting tonight that the meeting with our new business agent that i’d volunteered to represent my crew’s policy grievances at on thursday will not be, as i thought, me and my peers from the other crews in my department giving the new BA an idea of what goes on around here, but rather me, the BA, and my steward talking to the head of HR (scary) and the head of my department (scarier) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<


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in reply to @toad's post:

i’ve been warned by coworkers of retaliation which like. i’m off probation so it’s really hard to fire me and i’m not especially interested in the higher-level positions that just opened so i’m not super worried about it (plus it’s illegal and i’m confident in the local’s ability to fight and overturn anything that severe for me) but like. if i got reassigned to a different shop i know i’d be miserable for the months it would take for the ULP to go through, so 😬

also FUCK i gotta ASSERT MYSELF in a SMALL GROUP SETTING where i’m by far the LEAST CONFIDENT person in the room SHIT!!!!! frankly that’s what i’m more worried about lol

That sounds kinda weird, I'd definitely want to have input from my peers especially for areas that I'm less familiar with...

Is there any reason you can't push to have some other folks along to present specifics, or at least be allowed to sit in attendance if they want to come?

Personally I always find small closed meetings kinda sketchy, too. Always worry that HR or management would try to maneuver me into a place to agree to something on the union's behalf before people can consider it

to my knowledge other people were invited and nobody else stepped up! largely because of rumors of retaliation, i assume

officially the meeting is just supposed to be a preliminary sort of fact-finding thing about why our department head can unilaterally declare that we have to work twice as many weekends each year without any change to our negotiated contract, so we’re not going to be negotiating anything at this time, but the general vibes around here are that even so much as asking something like that puts you on the naughty list. the extent to which that’s true remains to be seen, i suppose