When I was a teenager, I worked in a larger store. During busy times we would get the offer to work on Sundays stocking up and trimming the stockroom so it was ready for next week, usually a very busy one. We received double pay and food, and we always accepted because, who doesn't want to get double pay at the age of 16?
This store had a gardening section was was open on weekends, and people working there got jealous and complained to the warehouse boss. This resulted in our double pay being no more, and we only got what amounted to pay for an extra 45m of pay, for a 4 hour shift according to the union agreement. Needless to say, none of us wanted to skip out on our weekend for essentially no benefit, and my boss had to hire extra people full time to cover what we could do uninterrupted during sundays, ultimately meaning greater cost overall.
Now what pissed us off, is that the people in the gardening section was hired to work on Sundays. They knew this was the job.
As a member of that union, I certainly didn't feel like it was good. In fact, the union was fine with this, it was the people hired to work on Sundays for union pay that was not, ruining it for us in the process. And they gained nothing.
This store had a gardening section was was open on weekends, and people working there got jealous and complained to the warehouse boss. This resulted in our double pay being no more, and we only got what amounted to pay for an extra 45m of pay, for a 4 hour shift according to the union agreement. Needless to say, none of us wanted to skip out on our weekend for essentially no benefit, and my boss had to hire extra people full time to cover what we could do uninterrupted during sundays, ultimately meaning greater cost overall.
Now what pissed us off, is that the people in the gardening section was hired to work on Sundays. They knew this was the job.