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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-bathroom-breaks-watersavers-union-complaint-20140710,0,2945251.story
By Corilyn Shropshire
Tribune reporter
3:18 p.m. CDT, July 10, 2014
A local union has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against an employer who they claim is allowing them only 6 minutes a day to use the bathroom.
Members of the Teamsters Local 743 who build sink stations at WaterSaver Faucet Co. and its sister company Guardian Equipment Inc. said that workers have been disciplined for exceeding their allotted bathroom time of 30 minutes per week, or 6 minutes per workday.
"They offered $1 per day for anyone who doesnt go to the bathroom at all," said Nick Kreitman, senior business agent for Teamsters Local 743. So far, 19 people have been disciplined, with written or oral warnings, he said.
The union contract currently allows for a 7.5-hour workday, including a 10-minute break in the morning, a 30-minute lunch break, a 15-minute afternoon break and a 5-minute cleanup period before the shift ends, according to Steven Kersten, owner and president of WaterSaver Faucet Co.
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Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,818 posts)Baby sitting our granddaughter, drove Marta to get her hair done (so Madison played in the park on a climbing wall etc.), lunch out for the 3 of us, and more.
So I missed most of everything DU for the day. It's good to be back.
OS
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)You can do the same for me over the holidays.
Omaha Steve
(99,818 posts)brewens
(13,637 posts)of there quick. Are you kidding me? Six minutes and you make me fight for every square of toilet paper, making that part of the process take four times as long as at home. Don't even get me started on the sinks. I frequently use two sinks at once to rinse the soap off my hands because the pitiful amount of watter you get with one wave makes you try ten freakin' times!
I occasionally work at an engineering firm and they don't pull any of that crap. The paper is on rolls and the sinks blast ample watter. Maybe they realize what those engineers are worth and don't waste their time saving a few pennies on buttwipe!
TBF
(32,116 posts)bathrooms can be way on the other side of the building from where you work etc.