Contract 6

Sick Leave, Sick Leave Rules, Sick Leave Control List, Sick Control Cash Out, 30-70 rule

Imagine a person being given a $100 and being told that they can only use $30 while having to save $70. What is the point of being given the $100 to begin with if the person is only entitled to $30 of that $100? The other question is if this person is entitled to get $100 then why is that person not given the right to use it as they like? Those are the questions that have baffled the membership and this mess must be cleared up in our 2012 contract.

This huge web appears to trap a majority of members during illness and deprives the members of their pay. One wonders why go along with such practices if they are of no benefit? Therefore Samuelsen must do the right thing in the 2012 contract for the common good of the membership.

We recommend the following: if a member is entitled to sick days then they should be able to use them whenever the need arises. The burden of establishing illness falls unto the employee as illustrated in section 2.6 Sick Leave subsection I.

It is unfathomable why Samuelsen, TBOU and the current leadership would act as pseudo management. That violates a basic principle of the union, which is an injury to one is an injury to all. 

As a union we should view Sick Leave from the rank and file point of view only and not from the management kaleidoscope views. If a member calls in sick, he gets paid because the work is covered by an extra list. However going along with the management views, and trying to crucify the member is unacceptable from the current leadership at the Union Hall.

Is it impossible for a member to get sick before or after an RDO in a repeated fashion? union hall must wake up on this issue and it must be rebuked. Clearly management views are null and void. Obviously a member can get ill before and after a regular day off - RDO in a repeated manner that is not a pattern of abuse and does not rise to the level of excessive or chronic. It is members sick days that are there to ameliorate their illness.

We demand that those who are on the extra list and in the event they are sick they should be paid the highest regular work schedule and not average of what the division pays. That is non sense from the section 2.6 Sick Leave subsection E should be striken

We demand that no member of the Local 100 be subjected to ‘call in‘ and ‘call out‘ ‘home visits‘ as illustrated in the attachment C. In addition why lump together absenteeism with sick and why agree to give the employer the right to determine so. We say the employer must be denied those rights. In theory it may be a good idea to cash out sick leave however in practice it is ill defined, and we here in why did you join the union recommend that every member preserve those sick days.