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This is more for curiosity's sake for me, because it's a moot point because i'm quitting anyway, but I'm curious: Let's say I'm a "management" employee. (I'm not, I have no direct reports, but i am classified as one) that has been assigned an "Emergency Work Assignment." What this is, is basically scabbing for striking union workers. As a non-union employee, do I have any recourse to refuse to be a scab, other than quitting? In reality, I'm quitting anyway, but I'm curious, as are others that I work with that are not quitting.
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Why can't you join the union?
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Jun 13, 2015 02:19
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http://umaine.edu/ble/files/2011/01/Picket_line.pdfquote:If you are not a union member, you can legally refuse to cross a picket line, but you will not Not sure why this is in SH/SC unless computers are staging a rebellion though. 
Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Jun 13, 2015 02:26
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Lord Windy posted:Why can't you join the union? He's management.
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Jun 13, 2015 03:15
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Mo_Steel posted:http://umaine.edu/ble/files/2011/01/Picket_line.pdf he must be a computer program but then this thread should be in CoC.
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Jun 13, 2015 03:39
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nitrogen posted:As a non-union employee, do I have any recourse to refuse to be a scab, other than quitting? Everything is negotiable.
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Jun 13, 2015 09:49
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If you're management you can refuse to do replacement work for striking workers because that work will not be listed in your contract. i.e. your job as listed in your employment contract is supervising cleaners. If your underlings don't show up for work, your boss can't force you to start cleaning, he can only force you to show up to work and supervise nonexistent cleaners. Of course such a rule may not apply depending on what country or state you're in.
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Jun 13, 2015 15:09
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peak debt posted:he can only force you to show up to work and supervise nonexistent cleaners.
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Jun 13, 2015 15:20
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I've never seen a contract that didn't say 'Other work as required' on it somewhere.
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Jun 14, 2015 21:58
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FatCow posted:He's management. That normally doesn't exclude you from joining the union. At least in Australia.
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Jun 16, 2015 14:00
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nitrogen posted:This is more for curiosity's sake for me, because it's a moot point because i'm quitting anyway, but I'm curious: We dealt with this whenever contract negotiations came up. Management employees got assigned to all kinds of poo poo - driving trucks 3 states over, installing phone service in attics during the summer in Louisiana. None of them had to do it, but they got some rudimentary training I guess as leverage against the union. And yeah, you're stuck doing it unless you can be classified as an essential employee. As for crossing picket lines, in our case the CWA worked out an agreement where they'd only picket one entrance. As long as no represented employees came in the back entrance, they'd let managers come in and out without a problem. The company actually forbade any represented employees from coming to work (deactivated their badges in case of strike) to ensure managers didn't have to cross a line. What really sucks is being represented, but under a different contract with a different expiration date. In that case the union expects you to sympathy strike, but you can be fired for doing so. My shop steward alluded that if I didn't strike I probably wouldn't want to park my car at work. Fortunately I didn't have to test that hypothesis out.
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