I work at a grocery store and I was getting great hours until around a month-two months ago.
I have some health issues and was feeling like my work/home life balance was out of whack, so I dropped my availability by a whopping 8 hours per week. I only did this after months of consideration and the hiring of 2 more people in my role, as we’d only had myself and one other until then.
Almost immediately I was being scheduled for 15-20 hours a week. I then went on a planned trip for a few days and came back to my whole front end team having doubled. After that, anyone who’d worked prior to the hiring surge started seeing their hours dropping while new hires got full time.
That first wave of hires in April is now seeing their hours drop with the current wave of new hires.
I am down to 11-14 hours per week.
I really like my team, my job, my regulars. I enjoy it a lot. But this is burning me in so many ways. There aren’t any other stores that even pay as much as this one much less actually giving hours out.
Part of me wants to figure out how to unionize, but I’m scared of them Union busting and losing my job anyway.