Posted on 07/16/2014 8:53:33 AM PDT by grundle
Spend more than 6 minutes a day in the bathroom at Chicago's WaterSaver Faucet company and you'll face disciplinary measures.
That's what a union contends the manufacturer is pulling: timing bathroom breaks and warning employees when they can't beat the clock.
The union, Teamsters local 743, filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board claiming WaterSaver unfairly disciplined 19 workers in June for "excessive use" of washrooms.
The company's human resources department described "excessive use of the bathroom as... 60 minutes or more over the last 10 working days," according to the affidavit. Do the math and it works out to 6 minutes a day.
The controversy goes back to last winter when WaterSaver installed swipe card systems on bathrooms located off the factory floor.
WaterSaver has adopted a rewards system where workers can earn a gift card of up to $20 each month ($1 a day) if they don't use the bathroom at all during work time.
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I normally class unions below even the Obamadork in idiocy and corruption, but this time, go union, go.
This is a form of age discrimination!
In unrelated news, they're introducing chili and burritos in their company lunchroom.
I would just bring a roll of toilet paper with me and use it to full advantage on the supervisors desk when the need arose...: )
They should get with the program and issue Depends to employees - I use ‘em and don’t have to leave my desk all day....
/johnny
They get breaks already by law. Go then. Geez
That is crazy! What if you are sick? Or maybe have an illness that sometimes flares up causing more bathroom time? My husband has Crohn’s disease and 6 minutes would not do for him on several days.
Heck by the time you unzip your pants, pee, wash and dry your hands, it’s been probably 90 sec. Just to pee!
I’m with the union here & more power to them for sticking up for these employees.
Bow to your corporate overlords!
But, that is the only time i get to be AWAY from the stress of the job!
I take a diuretic. Will Obama write an Executive Order giving me dispensation?
According to the article, the company is allowing up to six minutes bathroom time outside of breaktimes.
Misleading headline as usual for the media.
They’re teamsters. Can’t their truck driving union counterparts show them the big mouth 7-Up bottle trick? ;-)
I worked in a Retail Place that had a problem like this, but it was pre-cell phone. I was on a crew of three stocking shelves; we were pretty autonomous. One guy on the shift would clock in at 6am, then grab a newspaper and camp out in the bathroom for half an hour or 45 min while the other two of us worked.
Other guy and I complained a bunch to managment. Finally, the manager held the guy's time card, made him pick it up in order to punch in and out. Just the fact that someone was paying attention (much like the company in this story) cleared the problem up, pretty quickly.
Block cellphone activity (through shielding) and you’d cut down on “slack time” in bathrooms.
PS never buy a used cellphone.
The owners are a caricature of bad management. These people are the reasons Unions are formed. Stupid.
Good management makes Unions unnecessarily. If ownership insists on an adversarial relationship then they get what they ask for.
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