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    Default Steward is Training to Do Management Job

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: in the state of Pennsylvania can a shop steward take on the job of management and retain his position of steward

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    Default Re: Steward is Training to Do Management Job

    Depends on your union rules which we don't have access to. Do you?

    Besides, training to be a manager is not the same as being a manager.

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    Default Re: Steward is Training to Do Management Job

    Everybody is allowed to get ahead, as AJ points out, training for it doesn't make you management. Some managers are still covered by the union so it's not even inappropriate that he remain a steward as a manager.
    This is entirely an internal union issue. If you have questions, they should be directed there.

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    in the state of Pennsylvania can a shop steward take on the job of management and retain his position of steward
    Can it happen? Of course it can.

    Is it legal? Yes.

    Is it permitted under the collective bargaining agreement between some unidentified union and some unidentified employer? How should we know? And no, I'm not asking you to identify the union or employer because no one here is likely to have knowledge of or access to the CBA.

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    Can it happen? Of course it can.

    Is it legal? Yes.

    Is it permitted under the collective bargaining agreement between some unidentified union and some unidentified employer? How should we know? And no, I'm not asking you to identify the union or employer because no one here is likely to have knowledge of or access to the CBA.
    I've been a Teamster since July 1, 1996 , and I have never seen any union member become part of management. If they did, they MUST take a withdrawal card or resign their membership from that local union.

    OP, call your local and if they don't help, contact your joint council.

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    Again, training for is not the same as being management. And I can't vouch for the teamsters but UAW which covered my plant had cutoffs as to how high in a supervisory role you could have before they considered you one of "them."

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    I've been a Teamster since July 1, 1996 , and I have never seen any union member become part of management. If they did, they MUST take a withdrawal card or resign their membership from that local union.
    While this anecdotal information relating to only one of the hundreds of labor unions in the U.S. might be of some interest to someone, it is irrelevant to the question asked (unless the OP happens to be asking about this particular union). However, since we're telling anecdotes, I once represented a company in which I became quite familiar with the employment history of numerous employees who had worked for the company for 30-40 years. Several of those employees started out as union-member, non-management employees and advanced in their careers and were promoted to management positions.

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