Writing up for working your schedule and going home is not acceptable. You can either voluntarily stay over or leave. Clearly state to them that their threats are making you uncomfortable and to, please, stop. If they are threatening you again you can file harassment on top of your grievance.
the most important thing here is: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING. NOT EVEN THE WRITE UP!
-- Edited by BagBoy on Monday 12th of March 2012 07:41:00 AM
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Hello. I work grocery, night stock. At my store, we are told that unless we stay till the truck is finished and the store faced, we cannot leave. If we do leave, we will get written up.
They also make us run backstock every Sunday and monday on top of facing and truck. We also have to scan adn print out new sheets for all backstock these two days, if not, they threaten to write us up.
My question is, can they really get away with writing us up for leaving on our scheduled time? Would filing a grievence get it taken away, or would the write up stick?
If you're not UFCW protected and in a right to work state, yes they can do it. The whole spiel your state dept. of labor will give you amounts to "Well, did they pay you? Yes? Then we can't do anything." sWhich themselves are union members, which begs an old question:
I am in UFCW Local 227. My state is not right to work. Even the Union Stewards say that they can write us up for not staying over and finishing the job.
I think it's bullcrap though. Maybe they can write us up, but I think if we turned around and filed a grievence against them that it would not stick.
Here is the bottom line. rather they can or can not is not the thing to concern yourself with. If management tells you to do it, ( even if it violates your contract) then you have no choice but to do it or get terminated for insubordination . what any good union business agent will tell you is this. work first and then grieve it. Contract violations are winnable . Insubordination In not always easy to win.
