I just want to preface this by saying that I am very thankful to be a member of a union and understand how important unionization is for protecting workers rights!!
However, Monday our union class teacher told us that if we stayed for a union vote that day we would be able to leave early on Friday. He didn't give a specific time, but alluded to the fact that it would be noon. We start at 7 and typically leave at 3:30. 10 of us decided to stay. The vote was intended to start at 4:30… but we ended up being there until 6. It sucked but I didn't really care because the 10 of us would get to leave early Friday.
Come today, Friday, I anticipated we would leave at 1 at the latest because we spent 2.5 extra hours at work Monday, meaning we should leave 2.5 hours early today. Nope, we're just cleaning around the union hall and noon passes… 1 passes… and I finally decide to politely express my frustration to my union teacher as we were finishing up (I'm not good with confrontation). His response was “if I let you guys leave then everyone will just leave. I didn't get a list of the people who stayed”. Who's fault is that??? Not ours! I was and still am unbelievably bothered but I just light-heartedly replied “dude, you scammed us” and he just responded “no, no”. Bullshit. Finally, he just let all of us, including people who didn't stay for the vote and left at normal time, leave at 2. Great for the people who didn't stay for the vote but absolute bullshit for the 10 of us who did.
We won't be getting paid for the time we wasted staying for that vote. I intended on going to the vote anyways, but I could've left and came back, which he wouldn't let us do if we wanted to leave early today. And I think that's real shady coming from a union. We're supposed to be able to trust you for being fairly treated at work, and this was entirely unfair. Be careful who and what you trust when it comes to work, whether you're union or not. Thanks for reading my rant and I hope you all have an incredible weekend!