Familiar story. We were never on a 9 day fortnight and have always been 5 day weeks, but during the revision process in 2013 when the menu of options was put to our office, they made every option other that the 1 they wanted (our rep included) so toxic, with talk of job losses and PT members getting ZERO Saturday's off, that it was inevitable which way the vote was going to go.daveyeff wrote:they did it to us over a year ago...we were all on 9 day fornites and 3 weeks on one week off. the UNION told us RM wanted to remove it because there was not enough work on Mondays and Tuesdays to justify the work patterns. we were given a vote for new shift patterns but NOT to keep our 9 day fortnites and 3 over 4s. these shift patterns were not included in the voting strategy. union said if we wanted to keep our existing shift patterns it would mean losing 9 jobs out of the office. we were all very aggrieved and disgusted with the union. even the branch were involved. we felt the reps and branch were in bed with management. we felt it was a smoke screen to rape us of our beloved shift patterns. they got their way and we lost them. 15 people dropped out of the union. we were told they are going to do this nationally. so be prepared to lose them. by the way, we are still inundated with work so it WAS ONE BIG f*****G LIE by them to get what they wanted. with union involvement.
I don't mind them giving us the correct info and outlining potential consequences, but when things are clearly rigged then the game is a bogey!