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St Mungos: Why I'm voting yes part3

St Mungo’s members share their stories

 

In the third of our series of first-hand accounts from Unite members at St Mungo’s on why they’re voting for strike action, we meet two more members* who share their stories:

 

Good collegues disciplined

 

Since joining St Mungo’s, originally, as a night worker, I’ve had my annual leave cut, because senior management has re-defined the meaning of a ‘day off’. They have tried to take away our additional hours payments for working anti-social hours.

 

Good colleagues have been disciplined and many dismissed for minor infringements.  These are people helping the most vulnerable in society and now they want to undermine our conditions through changes to junior staffing levels.

 

I’m voting for strike action because I’m tired of the way the people who made St Mungo’s the organisation it is are being treated.

 

 

Management have become nasty

 

The second member writes, I am voting “Yes” for a strike because I can see how the leadership team is behaving towards many of their dedicated, experienced staff.

 

Management have become “nasty” and that is affecting colleagues in an extremely negative way. When the staff are suffering so will our clients.

 

Unite’s industrial action ballot opened on Monday, August 5 and closes on Monday, September 2.

 

Want to help our St Mungo’s members?

 

Please support Unite’s St Mungo’s members by spreading the word on Twitter, using the #StMungosExposed#TimeToListen and sharing the graphics

 

And if you work at St Mungo’s, please share your story of why you’re voting yes for strike action: https://www.unitetheunion.org/stmungos

 

See earlier 'why Im voting yes' article here

 

Concern at management treatment of Unite rep here

 

Reports of the last strike here

 

Cute to agencies working with rough sleeper here

 

18 August 2019

Comments :

Good luck to you all and I hope you manage to get what’s right for you as well as show your management that you won’t stand for any sh*t. 


By Vinny on 2019-08-16 09:54:22

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