Re:Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday
by cess11 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @07:19AM
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All you need is three people that agree on one realistic change at your workplace and you have a union. From there you start having regular meetings and plan a strategy for pushing this single issue.
When that's done, chill for a while, do some recruiting and education in the workplace and think about what the next realistic change ought to be.
Re:Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday
by erik_seaberg on Saturday November 23, 2024 @08:16PM
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We can pay for oncall availability, but rewarding downtime is a dangerous incentive.
But let's align incentives. Any time spent fixing issues on-call is compensated 4-to-1. Workers may accrue compensation time, and any compensation time in excess of 20 hours is paid 10-to-1 when the employee leaves. The idea here isn't for workers to accrue and cash out comp time, but instead to give an incentive to the organization to ensure workers use their comp time.
Let's align incentives, what's hard on the worker should be hard on the owners and management.