I work as an overnight direct care aid in an assisted living facility. There are issues (low pay being chief among them), but one thing I can't understand is why so many of my colleagues come to the facility on days they don't work, during a shift they don't work, for monthly “staff meetings”. They're paid, but it still costs fuel and time to drive across town (or in from out of town) to attend a 30-45m meeting.
Most of the time, there's no agenda, even when I ask for one. This month, the agenda is “CEO is coming to talk about being a 'Team of ONE'.”
Normalize not going to meetings when they're scheduled outside your working hours. If managers want people physically at the meetings, they can run them as many times as necessary to catch everyone when they're on shift. Otherwise, it can be an email.