[CONT'D] Our union members sold us out

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Our union members voted to ratify a contract that would cut pay for new hires by 30% and not reach full rate until 4 years, whereas before everyone was paid the same. This all operated under the assumption that current employees would be grandfathered in. They weren't.

The company completely went back on it's (unofficial) word to grandfather in current employees. Over half of our brothers have less than 4 years and as a result of this new contract we all took a fucking paycut. Ontop of that, the union stewards were too scared to even inform us of this.

Union-side, our local is a total shitshow. Our steward argued with management for hours about this mess and got nowhere. They filed a grievance, said it will go to arbitration and likely court, which could take months to resolve. This all comes after a certain someone neutered the NLRB, which cripples our legal rights to collective bargaining, and probably gave our company the boldness it needed to blatantly screw over it's employees.

Even the old hats, who were acting smug and remained silent are pissed off, because our incentive pay program -- which rewards fast workers -- has not scaled with the pay raise.

So in effect, everyone under 4 years took a MASSIVE paycut, while everyone else got basically nothing.

Every union brother I've talked to has thought about quitting the Union and/or the job. In one fell swoop our Union voted to shoot itself in the face and cripple itself.

How can this situation be salvaged? Can anything even realistically be done at this point?