and when you "did".. did you add "are you happy now?"
I got three days once , from Consumers Glass in Milton, thanks to one of the line girls telling the packing room foreman to.. well you know.. on my behalf while I faught to get an overflowing moosehead beer bottle inspection line running. He thought I'd yelled it at him over the bottle jingle noise... so I got 3 days for insubordination. Worked out great. It was Tuesday so I took Wed/Thur/Friday with my Saturday to Wednesday @ noon once a month weekend and spent 7 days in the streams from the Forks of the Credit to GBay. Then came back, grieved it with the gal admitting to MY foreman that she told the packing room foreman off and not me and I got all my wages back and had a great week fishing. I bet you went fishing that day too Rick..... now go over your steward. If the union had any use, the manager in question wouldn't be cutting meat. That said... that week of fishing was the last use I ever had for a union and my loss of 5% a week on GROSS wages!