Originally Posted by
FangsF15
I don't think I'd go that far. BS strikes me as a guy doing the best with the hand he is dealt, and trying to be a lot more open/transparent with the processes. I doubt the summer vacation reduction was his idea.
The bigger issue is "Status quo". I hope the union is on this. Somehow having more Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks available seems like a ploy to fix their summer staffing problem.
This is not a status quo violation. This has already been through the grievance process and our argument was “past practice” and we lost. As long as the company made at least a week available each of the 52, then they were good to go.
We do have some contractual language now (needs to be improved) over allotment, but unless they violated the contract or did something completely radical with the allotment and you could show it was trying to manipulate negotiations, it isn’t gonna fly.