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I have another thread here detailing the exact issue, but this one is more the fact nothing is being done. I'll post a rough outline.
June 2016 - I put in a holiday request for Oct/Nov 2016. I also checked there was space on the holiday board, and took photo evidence. Also consulted my union rep who had to sign the holiday request.
July 2016 - Holiday request declined. Me and this manager had bumped heads regarding H&S prior to this.
July 2016 - As my rep was off, and I couldn't not get hold of a rep on the phone at work, I contacted Unite head office via email. I have the trail
July 2016 - Local rep said he'd see the manager. Manager told him to "feck of"
July 2016 - During a meeting with 15 or so of us, I asked the manager why he decline my holiday, he was asking us to approach him if we had problems. His reply to me was "Im the manager, I make the decisions". I have witnesses to this. I asked what about the 2 hours I'd requested from our allotted allowance in Novemnber. Again "managers discretion"
I left it in the hands of the union, and we broke up returning mid August.
Aug 2016 - I asked a more experience rep to ask the manager, he told him to feck off too. This dragged in with me asking my rep, and him saying he'll get the main man over.
Sept 2016 - I fired an email to the main unite man on site along with a copy of my formal grievance I requested to put in. Within the hour he came over and we had a meeting with the manager. The manager denied knowing what he'd done. He'd refused me holiday when there was no reason, and he'd also denied me 2 hours, but then gave others short hours months after, and also gave someone a day I had refused. The main unite rep tried the scare tactic on me "well, if you put this in you never know what might come out" I didn't appreciate that, and I told him. The meeting was left with the manager seeking his managers approval to give me the holiday. I told my local rep to proceed with he grievance.
Oct (late) 2016 - 2 weeks before I was initially planning to go abroad, a supervisor of my manger gave me the go ahead to have my holiday. Too late to book a family holiday now.
Oct 31st - I went to the doctors, and he signed me off with work related stress (still off) Saw work OH. They recommended time off, and also a meeting with higher management to "alleviate my concerns". I have this on my medical records in front of me.
Dec 2016 - Call from HR asking why any grievance ended up 100 miles away at another plant, and there would now be a delay.
Jan 2017 - Management meeting, where senior manager failed to show. The letter said he'd be there. Meeting was in his office. Manager who'd taken over my line said he'd find out whats going on with my grievance.
April 2017 - Still nothing, so I contacted the head unite man via email, and told him I was not happy with the speed. I said he'd get the local rep to find out. Nothing!
June 2017 - After giving up on the union, I phoned HR to ask what was happening, they are an off-site call centre. I was told the grievance never actually went in until late Nov 2016, and that after a regular monthly meeting between the management & union, my grievance was closed. It was only reopened when the low level manager in the January meeting enquired what was happening. I have the ticket numbers for these, now two, cases. She said it is assigned ti a case worker, and gave me his number. It goes to voicemail email. I left a message last week as a text, no reply.
What exactly do I do? The union are corrupt, and don't want to push it, I was told this off the record by my local rep who said he'd encountered resistance, hence it took so long to put in. I am still off work, and I feel like my head is permanently in a fishbowl.
June 2016 - I put in a holiday request for Oct/Nov 2016. I also checked there was space on the holiday board, and took photo evidence. Also consulted my union rep who had to sign the holiday request.
July 2016 - Holiday request declined. Me and this manager had bumped heads regarding H&S prior to this.
July 2016 - As my rep was off, and I couldn't not get hold of a rep on the phone at work, I contacted Unite head office via email. I have the trail
July 2016 - Local rep said he'd see the manager. Manager told him to "feck of"
July 2016 - During a meeting with 15 or so of us, I asked the manager why he decline my holiday, he was asking us to approach him if we had problems. His reply to me was "Im the manager, I make the decisions". I have witnesses to this. I asked what about the 2 hours I'd requested from our allotted allowance in Novemnber. Again "managers discretion"
I left it in the hands of the union, and we broke up returning mid August.
Aug 2016 - I asked a more experience rep to ask the manager, he told him to feck off too. This dragged in with me asking my rep, and him saying he'll get the main man over.
Sept 2016 - I fired an email to the main unite man on site along with a copy of my formal grievance I requested to put in. Within the hour he came over and we had a meeting with the manager. The manager denied knowing what he'd done. He'd refused me holiday when there was no reason, and he'd also denied me 2 hours, but then gave others short hours months after, and also gave someone a day I had refused. The main unite rep tried the scare tactic on me "well, if you put this in you never know what might come out" I didn't appreciate that, and I told him. The meeting was left with the manager seeking his managers approval to give me the holiday. I told my local rep to proceed with he grievance.
Oct (late) 2016 - 2 weeks before I was initially planning to go abroad, a supervisor of my manger gave me the go ahead to have my holiday. Too late to book a family holiday now.
Oct 31st - I went to the doctors, and he signed me off with work related stress (still off) Saw work OH. They recommended time off, and also a meeting with higher management to "alleviate my concerns". I have this on my medical records in front of me.
Dec 2016 - Call from HR asking why any grievance ended up 100 miles away at another plant, and there would now be a delay.
Jan 2017 - Management meeting, where senior manager failed to show. The letter said he'd be there. Meeting was in his office. Manager who'd taken over my line said he'd find out whats going on with my grievance.
April 2017 - Still nothing, so I contacted the head unite man via email, and told him I was not happy with the speed. I said he'd get the local rep to find out. Nothing!
June 2017 - After giving up on the union, I phoned HR to ask what was happening, they are an off-site call centre. I was told the grievance never actually went in until late Nov 2016, and that after a regular monthly meeting between the management & union, my grievance was closed. It was only reopened when the low level manager in the January meeting enquired what was happening. I have the ticket numbers for these, now two, cases. She said it is assigned ti a case worker, and gave me his number. It goes to voicemail email. I left a message last week as a text, no reply.
What exactly do I do? The union are corrupt, and don't want to push it, I was told this off the record by my local rep who said he'd encountered resistance, hence it took so long to put in. I am still off work, and I feel like my head is permanently in a fishbowl.
