After 6 months waiting to see if one of my team would get a well deserved raise the news finally came that the president himself said no for seemingly personal reasons.
I reached out to the AFL-CIO to start the process since we're in a trade that is fractured and not easily unionizeable.
We do apartment maintenance for a property management company. My coworker was hired years ago and yet has only been given one real raise.
So as a supervisor I deigned to get him his much deserved raise.
He signed for it in January, backdated to Decmeber but never saw the raise.
Despite having signed for it and having no reprimands to take it away week after week he'd never get a definitive response on the state of his raise.
Eventually this week he got his answer. The president flat out just said no the raise. Without any documented reason.
There have been many other reasons I've personally wanted to seek unionization. The company has no strong structure, no real HR department, fly by night joh descriptions and compensation guidelines.
Between the 12 or so properties there is no consistency and our turn over is high.
I hope that maybe we can get the ball rolling to at the very least keep other employees from dealing with the blatant personal denial for compensation.