Class Action Grievance: Stop Punishing Us For Family Emergencies!
Were you ever written up for calling off work because you had to take a child or parent to emergency room? Basically, your choice was to risk letting them die and go to work or risk your job so they don't die. No matter what kind of medical documentation you turned in, the mismanager just shrugged their shoulders and wrote you up! To make it worse, you may have had a sellout union official who said nothing nor helped you file a grievance! Did you know that as of last year, it is ILLEGAL for the CTA to write you up for such a thing ? That's right: It is ILLEGAL to be written up for calling off work to take a sick child to the hospital! Yeah, despite some of the crappy politicians and corruption going on, the State of Illinois has some damn good laws that protect ordinary people . However, who is going to enforce these laws? It's supposed to be our union presidents. But instead of helping us, they have been helping the CTA mismanagement punish us. So I wrote ...
