Hi everyone, my husband is a new hire at Kroger and was that in order to join the union (or have full-time status?) that he must work at least 40 hours a week, every week, for 6 months. If he were to ever dip below that, he would have to start over again. Is this true? It seems bizarre to me, and maybe he was given bad information.
You better make darn sure you work those 40 hours per week for 6 months straight! You don't want to screw up your new & exciting career at Kroger! No sir!
That is most likely in reference to becoming full time. I've never heard of somebody having to work 40 hours for 6 months to join the union. It's for 40 hours for 12 weeks straight to qualify for full time in my district. 6 months seems a bit too much.
Anyways, full time is not worth it. The only benefit you'll see is a 40 hour work week every week and terrible pay. The only benefit is knowing that you'll have 40 hours every week. Other "benefits" are **** and not even worth the stress and anxiety that comes with working at kr
My district requires an average of 35 or more hours a week for 12 consecutive weeks. You roll over if you worked some overtime during this time because the automated system that alerts the managers to cut you back so you don't roll over is evidently set to prevent it on a 40 hours or less a week working for 12 consecutive weeks but doesn't keep up with your total hours worked. We had 4 people on the night stock crew roll over in my store in a 1 year period. I am sure none of it was intentional. My district doesn't require you to join the union but most do because of the reputation Kroger has for screwing over their employees who are not union members as well as their employees who are union members.
