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what line of work have you run into this problem?
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I work in foodservice, operations and sales. I floated between 5 different warehouses in 5 cities in Texas (all non-union), never had any problem. Here in Chicago the warehouse is all union. They wait until we have an order which needs picked to take their breaks. They pick/load the product onto the trucks, and I've had 1 day in 1.5 years in which they actually were counted correctly (usually only 100 pieces, not rocket science). When the trucks are not loaded with accurate count, we must wait until the warehouse workers get off break (as they wait until we show up with mispicks) and then a 15 min union sanctioned meeting (where absolutely nothing is discussed... it's just a 2nd 15min break).
My employees are commission, not hourly. It drives me up the wall we must waste time in the morning due to other people's mistakes... and again when we try to get them to correct this. I went and picked 1 piece from the shelf 10ft from me when they told me I would have to wait 2hours before they could get someone to pick it... and they had a walkout the next day as I violated Union contract.
Under contract, each mis-pick results in a write up to the Union employee. However, as the Union protested the high level of write ups.. the complaints are simply tossed in the trash.
We leave the Union warehouse in a couple months... and no one can wait for it. Also, the new company which purchased us promises to fire each warehouse worker if they attempt to unionize as they see what it causes.