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mokawanis

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3. Being a steward is a tough job

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 04:02 PM

Oct 2013

I was a union officer and steward for over 5 years. The toughest cases were the ones where people were being disciplined for coming to work drunk and the cases where people got in physical fights at work.

When alcohol was a factor I always asked the employer to give the worker another chance and allow them to use treatment and employee assistance programs. Sometimes they went for my offer, but most of the times they just fired the workers and then we lost the cases in the grievance process.

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Insight from my brother on his experience as Union Steward...... [View all] mrmpa Oct 2013 OP

There should be a treatment libodem Oct 2013 #1

Bad story, elleng Oct 2013 #2

Being a steward is a tough job mokawanis Oct 2013 #3

They should win this case............ mrmpa Oct 2013 #4

What was his job? Hangingon Oct 2013 #5