What was the harassment? How did the union fight to keep his job? If he wasn't fired to begin with, what did the union do to save it? Management doesn't give a crap what unions saying during the investigation process or disciplinary period. If he wasn't fired, the union didn't save his job.
If he was fired and they got his job back, the company clearly terminated without just cause because they would either settle on him returning or an arbitrator would agree it wasn't just.
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Originally Posted by Swarly
well if more unions were like yours I probably wouldn't have a problem with them. all the ones I've either worked in or had friends in have run more like mine  The shop stewards I knew where all one group of buddies who all got into the job and would laugh about how untouchable they were. |
I honestly don't know how to respond to this. It's so far from the normal and doesn't even make sense. Shop Stewards aren't "untouchable". If anything they paint a target on themselves to management for being advocates. Shop Stewards and union delegates also spend hours and hours of their own time volunteering putting together grievances, taking calls from members, and setting up unit or local meetings for their members.
If what your saying is true you belonged to a terrible union with horrible shop stewards. That doesn't fit the experience I've had but just like there's terrible managers and companies I would agree there's bound to be bad unions.