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Anyone else think "at will" work states are a joke? Is it just me?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 576912" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>As State employees, we were not even allowed to breathe the word "union"! It was grounds for instant dismissal. We did have an "employees association" that serves some of the same purposes, just can't call it a "union". Supposedly mostof us had Civil Service protection but that only goes so far. And if you file a grievance against the State for unfair treatment, the "employees association" will provide you with an attorney or an advisor once it reaches a certain level. But we've all seen how they can bend these rules enough to pretty much do whatever they want to. The old job title shuffle is one of them. If there's no money for State employee raises that year, the favored ones still get theirs. They keep doing the exact same job but their job title is changed to one with a higher pay grade and they get a nice salary increase. Another thing they've done is to eliminate certain people's positions (laying them off), then create another almost duplicate position with a slightly different job title ...then they have the nerve to tell these people that they will graciously allow them to interview ... FOR THEIR OWN JOB!!! It happens all the time and Civil Service can't do a thing about it! They can do it to you whenever they darned well want to and even having a lot of seniority won't help you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 576912, member: 1883"] As State employees, we were not even allowed to breathe the word "union"! It was grounds for instant dismissal. We did have an "employees association" that serves some of the same purposes, just can't call it a "union". Supposedly mostof us had Civil Service protection but that only goes so far. And if you file a grievance against the State for unfair treatment, the "employees association" will provide you with an attorney or an advisor once it reaches a certain level. But we've all seen how they can bend these rules enough to pretty much do whatever they want to. The old job title shuffle is one of them. If there's no money for State employee raises that year, the favored ones still get theirs. They keep doing the exact same job but their job title is changed to one with a higher pay grade and they get a nice salary increase. Another thing they've done is to eliminate certain people's positions (laying them off), then create another almost duplicate position with a slightly different job title ...then they have the nerve to tell these people that they will graciously allow them to interview ... FOR THEIR OWN JOB!!! It happens all the time and Civil Service can't do a thing about it! They can do it to you whenever they darned well want to and even having a lot of seniority won't help you. [/QUOTE]
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