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To: straight life who wrote (128967)	1/21/2010 4:43:51 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 541824

you really do have a flair for the pompous; your question fairly screams darkly ignorant Personal abuse is not allowed here, period.

To: straight life who wrote (128967)	1/21/2010 5:07:52 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541824

I have another story for you. Had new carpeting put in my classroom. Tried to blow out the smell- it was AMAZING. It was a few days before classes were to start, and I'd get a headache just from walking in the room. I sent emails to the janitors and to the VP at our school who was in charge of facilities. Nothing. More emails- desperate emails. Nothing. I emailed the union. They had someone out to test the air the same day, AND my classroom was cleaned and aired out in time for school. I think I would have been locked in a reeking, and probably dangerously polluted, classroom, with 4 classes of kids for a long time without my union. I don't always agree with the union, but as a safety backstop, and as a way to combat unfair and sometimes insane administrators, there's nothing like a union.

To: straight life who wrote (128967)	1/21/2010 5:58:16 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541824

That doesn't mesh with what I understand is the practice today. What year did your story occur in? I don't believe that the foreman can just say your fired to a unionized worker these days. Unless the worker is committing felonies at the workplace, you have to build a case load incidents to justify the termination of any unionize worker. Occasionally management will need to downsize the workforce but in that case you just look up your seniority number and the workers who have been there the longest stay and with the least seniority are laid off. Worker performance never enters into the decision.