Legal Question in Employment Law in Pennsylvania

Can union reps side with management over their own members?
A union rep who management got for me because they didn't let me get someone of my own choice (Weingarten Rights) turned on me. Instead of fighting for me and protecting its members. What ever the manager said and wanted to do the union rep never questioned him but went along. Both of them accused, and the manager was allowed to send me how without any type of reason or documentation, and terminate me without reason which being in a union they must show just cause an the contract also takes away ''at will'' which is how I was fired. The union rep lied about putting in my grievance so another rep put in in for me, the union didn't even follow the grievance steps or gave me documentation like it says in the contract. The only time that the union wanted to do their job was when I put in a complaint someplace else to fight the company on my own. Then they started going through the step process 1, 2, and 3 , only 4 months after calling endlessly trying to get the union to fight for me. In the end this manager and union rep are buddies because at finding fact hearing the manger said the reason he selected me a union rep which he wasn't suppose to do was because they knew each other. So I was set up what can I do, 3 year clean work record.

Asked on 1/15/09, 11:53 am

Terrence Valko ERISA Disability Lawyer

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Re: Can union reps side with management over their own members?

If it's so bad, your remedy requires you to file an ULP with the regional office of the NLRB claiming a violation of the duty of fair representation.

Answered on 1/26/09, 10:47 am

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