All of a sudden I have had 4 customers over 2 days come in and the conversation leads to their job. Leaves a union card. Hhhmmm.
14 replies (most recent on top)
If Mr Damron's email turns out to be a pack of lies, I will be seeking legal counsel and making this as messy as possible for Lowes.
I have been recording the various changes in mentality of the Managers to Staff who are currently worried about their positions and I would invite others in stores everywhere do the same.
Are you or anybody else in the stores being treated differently?
Are you being given unreasonable tasks and deadlines?
Have you been wrote up for something innocuous?
Record everything, time and date it and who was present. If you are asked to go to any sort of disciplinary meeting NEVER go alone, make sure you have somebody from outside of Lowes to attend and record what is being said. If you know anybody in a legal position... even better take them with you!
We have to fight back and make this as messy as possible to invoke change...and with any luck Niblock will be fired!
Those folks on here saying it's a bad idea to unionize are Corporate shills! they are allover Topix threads too whenever anybody makes a suggestion about protecting the employees they quickly takeover the thread with stories of it being worse. Nothing can be worse than what we are currently suffering, we are seeing great, experienced hardworkers being thrown on the scrap heap because of greed. Robert Niblock has eroded a great Company and will continue to if we let him.
We have to fight back!
If Lowe's were unionized members would have to pay union dues. Lowe's would not increase you pay to make up for this. So you would actually get less money in your pay check due to union dues being deducted.
We need to push back against managements demands. Like all the reports that they want done, the help with code 3's and code 50's, and the "here's our expert" comments made to customers as the "service managers" scurry off to wherever they go. (I'm in Electrical, just because I'm helping someone with light bulbs doesn't mean I know movers, grills, and/or outdoor furniture.)
I don't mind helping but the way the store is laid out makes it easy for someone on the front end to ask for help with a code 3 or 50. Can't someone else help out?
I have worked for a union company and it s---ed big time. The union reps took care of themselves and got their $200 shoes, $500 suits and drove their Caddy on the backs of the worker's union dues. This was in the early 1980s. They told the owners of the business how they should spend their personal money. They would not negotiate in good faith when the business (due to trucking deregulation) was changing rapidly. The Union reps said the old man would never shut down the business but would pay up. Well the old man shut down the union side of the business and went all owner operator. 90% of those union guys never made the same money again I can guaranty you that being where they lived. The union rolled the dice and lost. Best yet was about 10 years later the union bosses got convicted of embezzlement and went to jail. Today their union pension plan is about to go bust. My son had to join a union at the age of 16 pushing carts and bagging at ShopRite. He got all kinds of letters from the union telling him how much he benefited from being a member. Well the union got him minimum wage for the expense of union dues so in reality he was making less than minimum wage. Yeah, the union did get cashiers more than minimum wage but they did not do that for my son's position. The union made another union hater with that. So be careful what you wish for.
Unions are for the weak. You will just be trading one master for another.
Sneaky
We don't have to unionize, just stick together and stay on the same page. Unfortunately there will always be someone who runs to management and tells. They think it will enhance their "career" at Lowe's.
your store, which is owned by lowe's corporation can let you unionize it is your right to bargain and to let your store go union....however.....that will not stop lowe's from closing the store you are in that just unionized and opening one down the street , that you and everyone that signed the bargaining agreement will never be able to work at let alone work for lowe's again. lowe's is keeps an hr in every store to act as a union buster. talk of unionizing in the break room requires HR to tell you what a bad idea it is for you and for your managers. typically they will start by saying you can kiss your healthcare goodbye. for lowe's to go union it may just have to call for 75% of the store to all demand it at the same time. likely you will go union, then you will be fired and replaced by union workers with seniority over you. better to just move on.
Union could be more headaches. I know a guy who works at gm. He's laid off and on so much every year. Part of that is Cause he's in a union
I wonder why more people don't try to unionize us. I've never seen anyone in our store or even heard of anyone attempting to. I think that it would be welcomed. I bet 80 percent of our store would turn out for a union organization meeting.
It is about time that we start thinking about a union. WE need to all pull together.
Do iiiiiiit!!!! 🙌❤
Hell, its about time. We need to unionize and push back against all the changes that nagtively impact our pay, job security and bonus potential. The made SSEI next to impossible to make.
Me as well