Reply #100: That's what happens when you have wusses as stewards.

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They cave to management and management puts them in their back pocket. In the meantime, management stalls every single grievance they can, deliberately creating a backlog of unresolved grievances, which lends credence to the point of view that the union "isn't doing anything" about management abuses. At the same time, management flagrantly violates the contract they themselves signed- and often the law itself as either an ancillary or deliberate act- knowing full well and good that the union is too busy resolving the pending grievances on the local or national level to deal with real issues like pay scale violations, creation of a hostile work environment, flagrant FMLA violations, and so on.

Can you tell I've had experience with this sort of behavior? Daily. It's called corruption, and not all locals are guilty of it.