Chairs at work

PaulaSB12

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Us miserable peasants have the nasty habit of sitting down on the odd occasion that everything is working (rare these days) they are talking about taking the chairs away BUT there is a rumour (please be wrong) that the chairs in the locker room and canteen are doomed. Surely that would be ilegal? The union is saying its going to fight it but after the debacle of the pay talks (the area rep recommended telling members to accept, local reps recomended rejection loosing quite a bit of money and accellerating redundancies)so I am not sure they have any leverage with the firm anymore.
Oh when they do I am sitting on the machinery!!!!!!!! The point is they say we need to increase productivity, we often don't complete orders BUT the reason we don't fill orders is because they run out of raw materials (fruit, wheat, in a company whose main product is a wheat based breakfast cereal) or packaging, we can make it but cant pack it! In one day alone we counldnt do 5 orders because a we didn't have the right fruit and b we didn't have any of the right packaging!

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it's easier to blame the staff than the real issue: otherwise management would have to take responsibility for not ensuring stocks matched demand.

If you work long shifts then your employer has a duty to provide a rest area for you, large employers usually have a canteen area and rota shifts i.e. 10 mins break during a 4 hr shift etc.

I suspect your organsation is suffering in the global economy and shortage of grain has pushed up the prices which means cuts elsewhere.
Hope it all works out!
 
Sadly Paula the unions don't have the powers they used to have and not alot of companys take notice of them unless they have to.
I'm pretty sure that the company that you work for can not take away the chairs from canteen or locker rooms as this company and others do have a duty of care toward there work force & this includes providing table and chairs for poeple to use while having breaks.
Hope you get this sorted & the union can work this out with the company involved. :thumbsup2 :goodvibes
 














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