How to view the contract?

Date: Sep 12, 2015

How to view the contract?

Lord_Uboat · Guru

The wonderfully transparent unions for some reason don't like for contracts to be posted online. Wonder why. :)

kroagrr · Guru

. . . unions for some reason don't like for contracts to be posted online.

UFCW Local 1000's contract is on the union's website as a pdf file and available for download: http://ufcw1000.org/member-media/know-your-contract/ .

Date: Sep 12, 2015

found mine online at my locals site... however it wants me to put in a password, i don't recall ever sitting one, and there seems to be no way to get a reset done.. sigh. lucky for me i finally got my hands on a paper copy after a few yrs asking for it.

Date: Sep 14, 2015

Just print it off, wipe your ass with it, and throw it at the store manager. It's that worthless.

kroagrr · Guru

It's that worthless.

Reading and enforcing it gives it some power.

. . . it wants me to put in a password . . .

Try the last four digits of your social security number.

Date: Sep 14, 2015

kroagrr wrote:
Reading and enforcing it gives it some power.

Until a manager says "needs of the business".

GenesisOne · Guru

kroagrr wrote:
It's that worthless.
Reading and enforcing it gives it some power.

. . . it wants me to put in a password . . .
Try the last four digits of your social security number.

I don't know about other divisions, but in mine, the union website actually blocks you from viewing the contract if you aren't a union member. So, if you're considering joining the union in my division, but want to review the current contract first to see if it's worth paying union fees, you are literally blocked from doing so and your only alternative is trying to obtain a copy of the union booklet, which technically only gets passed out to "union members" in my store, despite the fact that the state I work in is one where whether you're part of the union or not, you're protected by the union. Yet good luck knowing what's in the contract if you're not a union member or wanting to read the current contract for yourself to make an informed decision as to whether to join the union or not.

In my opinion, the contract should be accessible to all.

-- Edited by GenesisOne on Monday 14th of September 2015 04:51:52 PM

kroagrr · Guru

In my opinion, the contract should be accessible to all.

Especially when it applies to all. I absolutely agree with you. So, apparently, does the federal government:

Right to copies of collective bargaining agreements

Every employee (whether or not a union member) is entitled, on request, to receive from a local union a copy of each collective bargaining agreement made by the local which directly affects that person's rights as an employee. Whenever a parent union makes a collective bargaining agreement which directly affects the rights of members of an affiliated local union, the parent union is required to send a copy of the agreement to the local, which must keep
the copy in its principal office. All employees, whether or not union members, affected by such agreement have the right to examine this copy, and the local is required to make it available to them. -- United States Department of Labor