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ASK YOURSELF THIS
 
What happens if your employer:
Loses a major client
Lays you off to hire someone else
Fires you
Declares bankruptcy
Sells the company
Retires
Dies or becomes seriously ill
Loses the company in divorce
Will your employer:

       Help you find another job?

                With the same pay?

                With the same health benefits?

                With the same retirement?


      Continue to pay your health insurance until reemployed?


      Pay you weekly benefits if you get hurt or sick?
 


Has this ever happened to you?

 

  • Consistently found mistakes on your paycheck?

  • A disagreement on how many hours you actually worked?

  • Overtime hours were not offered equally?

  • You were not paid the proper overtime rate?

  • Given the option to go home early in a trade for overtime pay?

  • Questioned on starting time, lunch time and quitting time?

  • Asked to work before starting time or through lunch with no compensation?

  • Filled your personal vehicle with company tools to carry from job to job?

  • Bought tools that should have been furnished?

  • Consistently used your cell phone for the companies business?

  • Not been compensated for travel on multiple job days or long distance?

  • Felt that your health or safety was at risk and no one cared?

  • Bought material and supplies with your own money to be paid back later?

  • Sat at home while lower paid workers continued to work steady?

  • Had no idea of when your next raise would be or your maximum wage?

  • Paid your own health care and watched cost rise as paycheck fell?

 

We have seen many of these same business practices for over

100 years

Contact our organizing department today

314-371-2800 ext. 31

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