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Originally Posted by Jacks
I'm not going into details but I'm dealing with unionized workers on a project right now. One of the union members volunteered to do a couple of hours of additional work that would make everything go much smoother. This person is familiar with the area and can preform the task in half the time that someone from the outside can. This person VOLUNTEERED their time to get this done.
The union got wind of it and forbid the person from doing any extra work that isn't part of the collective bargaining agreement, off the record everyone freely admits that they don't want the other employees to look bad. That person will literally have to stand there now and watch the outside service preform the task, ridiculous.
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How can they stop him from doing it? They can't kick him out of the union for something like that. The guy made a choice. A union can't stop you from getting a part time job outside the union or from volunteering. Even if he worked extra hours for free they couldn't file a grievance for him unless he asked them to, now someone else could grieve those hours if it is union work, or the union could file a policy grievance, but unless they are physically restraining him from being able to volunteer I think it's more accurate to say that employee made a choice.
You say he is literally standing there watching someone else do the work, if that's the case I would ask what is he doing standing there? Is he doing his actual job instead of going and working for free? If his union influenced him to do that I'd say he's probably gonna be pretty thankful in the end. And when he gets his paycheque he'll probably be asking himself what he was thinking by volunteering hours when he had paid work to do instead.
Edit: Saw that you clarified he was still working in a later post