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Laffy Kat

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Sun Aug 16, 2015, 11:47 PM Aug 2015

I love my union! [View all]

Last week my union recovered $200 + in wages that I lost when my manager administered some "creative scheduling" to get out of paying several of us holiday day for the Fourth of July weekend. Five of us filed a grievance which resulted in a ten-minute meeting among union stewards, management, and us workers with the manager admitting wrong-doing. Today (Sunday) at work I had an e-mail waiting for me from my boss promising the corrected pay will be in my next check.

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I love my union! [View all] Laffy Kat Aug 2015 OP
Yay!! Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #1
Give the union the credit it earned: Which union is it? merrily Aug 2015 #2
SEIU. nt Laffy Kat Aug 2015 #9
I was once a member! Yeayyyy to my former union! merrily Aug 2015 #11
I am a substitute teacher in a LibDemAlways Aug 2015 #3
Substitute teachers are always paid a daily wage yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #4
That daily wage is a small fraction of what the LibDemAlways Aug 2015 #6
Then if I were you I'd become a full time teacher. yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #7
Subs are very abused. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #5
Our union dues aren't that much. Laffy Kat Aug 2015 #10
Congratulations! Thanks for posting. lindysalsagal Aug 2015 #8
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