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Protect Your Work By Jeff Riddell, Vice President I started to write this article about the mystery shopper, after debating about addressing the labor scheduler that is coming. They are both important issues individually, on their own merit. But another time. The National Agreement starts with Article 1, section 6 which protects us from having management do our work. That is a right that was fought long and hard for. Neither you nor I have the right to give it away. Yet it is happening with regularity. Yes, they have cut our workforce to the bone. Yes, many of us are tired; many of us are at the point that we are simply trying to do our specific function, to protect it, having no more fingers to put in the holes in the dyke. Others feel that certain work is below them. I heard this week of a supervisor whose job is being contracted out. I was told the supervisor drives to work with tears in her eyes. I was immediately reminded of two senior clerks, a timekeeper and a finance clerk, whose jobs were abolished, and the tears they shed as they worked mail. They didn't give their work away, it was taken, and the fight goes on to get that back. A local is only as strong as the membership wants it to be. You can't say after the fact that the union did not protect my job, if you give it away. The next trail of tears does not have to be yours. Protect your work. Even if the supervisor is your friend, don't let them do it. If you are afraid to rock the boat, get a steward involved. If you knew the next job to go would be yours, would you then say something? |
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