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No. 10
Old Dec 28, 2008, 03:59 PM

Default Re: Descrimination: A full hot meal or soup and a sandwich
While it would annoy me a little that some animals are more equal than others, that's reality. It is also reality that the hot meals, more than likely, are not ready that early.
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No. 11
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:00 PM

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No free lunch here either. Soup and a sandwich costs me 5.75 in the cafeteria. If I want the hot meal entree they are serving it is 7.95. They do provide a meal for us on Thanksgiving and Christmas. I guess I appreciate what little they do give me since they are required to give me nothing.
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No. 12
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:05 PM

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We have a cafeteria that opens at 7 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m. We can eat there or not. Most of us during the day get a salad from the salad bar.

Night shift brings in loads of food - including pizza, chips and salsa, cake, etc.

The hospital isn't mandated to provide food for us - just time for breaks and lunch.

steph

edited to add . . . . we do get free Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.
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No. 13
from november17
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by FireStarterRN View Post
I know a guy who used to work at the Coors plant in Colorado. They were allowed to drink free beer on the job. How about that for a fringe benefit?
I think I am in the wrong field!! Imagine how that would apply at a hospital? Hahaha...all the free morphine you can handle!
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No. 14
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:16 PM
Updated Dec 28, 2008 at 04:22 PM by Straydandelion

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Originally Posted by 4theBetterGetter View Post
I would be so happy with a sammich and some hot soup!!!!!!!!!!! 15 min. and I can call that a supper break! So...quit whining!
No Joke? You are ACTUALLY furnished a meal!!

It would be a GREAT day if actually got a break... even if I did get one, who had time in 30 minutes to go through the line and get a meal (or actually remember to bring enough money to buy one)?
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No. 15
from leslie :-D
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Truth66 View Post
I have since filed a descrimination grievance and nothing will be looked into until after the first week of January. However, with this particular union's lousy track record of not wanting to hold the employer accountable on anything, I'm not holding my breath.
honey, if prior grievances are even remotely similar to the one you just filed, i totally understand your union's "lousy track record".
if i had to represent such a grievance, i'd kick your hiny to the curb...
and can guarantee, you'd have much harsher words about my track record.

leslie
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No. 16
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by FireStarterRN View Post
I know a guy who used to work at the Coors plant in Colorado. They were allowed to drink free beer on the job. How about that for a fringe benefit?
Well I would say better than the free graham crackers and pudding I get!!!
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No. 17
from november17
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:36 PM

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Better than at my hospital. The food service manager completely closed the cafeteria at night (they used to open it from 12a-3a). There is also a policy that we technically aren't supposed to leave the premises during our lunch breaks. Also, all the delivery places close at midnight. So night shift is almost completely SOL if they forget to bring their lunch. The only thing available is junk out of the vending machine. That's been going on for over a year. Suck it up!
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No. 18
from Truth66
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:40 PM

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Thank you for the feedback thus far. However, I think that there's some clarification that needs to be done.
1) Our collective aggreement states "The parties hereto agree that in every instance the employee shall pay a fair price for any meals obtained which shall in no intance be less than the actual cost of furnishing such meals, and the said cost shall be computed by the Corporation. When employees bring their own meal, they shall use the designated dining area for the consumption of same." In other words all employees are entitled to purchase a meal.
2) Up until the the first week of December, every employee in the building was entitled to purchase a full hot meal of what ever was being served to the residents that particular day. Every employee was treated equally. The only difference was that there was different meal times.
3) After the first week of December the employer singled out two categories of workers and said that they were not allowed to purchase a full hot meal like everyone else.
4) If the employer would have allowed the Practical Nurses and Care Aides to change their break times to eat their lunch after 12:30 pm like everyone else then there would be no arguement. Then everyone would once again still be treated equally and all entitled to purchase a full hot meal.
As it stands now the Practical Nurses and the Care Aides are not treated equally, thus the filing of the grievence.
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No. 19
from CathyLew
Old Dec 28, 2008, 04:43 PM

Default Re: Descrimination: A full hot meal or soup and a sandwich
all I know is I want to go work at Coors!

working nights for so many years.... I just got used to brown bagging my lunch. when working days, sometimes all you had time for was to snag some crackers from the floor kitchen as you went by.

every few years, someone from management would remember the night crew, and order a pizza for us if we had to work durring the hospital christmas party. (where employees who were able to go got a free sit down meal) so the occasional pizza every few years was at least an apreciated gesture
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