Page ACCION Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1946 IS IT GRIEVANCE?
OFFICERS, LOCAL 713 Edward Cheresh. Regional Director Teodoro Nolan. Financial Sec.
Cespedes Burke Correspondence Sec.
Vice Presidents Bilide Lee Edward Gaskin Edgar Best Aston Parchment Stanley Crossman REAL OR PHONY?
GRIEVANCE CTION BE FAIR TO YOURSELF Published every Wednesday by Local 713, United Public Workers, Eustace Williams Editor Frank Thompson.
Circulation Aptdo. 1709, Panama, Drawer Balboa, Vol. PANAMA, No. 19 AND THE UNION EDITORIAL2 and restaurant workers, locomotive engineers. ENCOURAGING The November 1, 1946 copy of the PANAMA AMERICAN carried an article written by When is a grievance not a position is then damaged both should not be afraid to tell the Ralph de Toledano titled Stalin Hand in Pa grievance? This question has with its membersship and with worker so. Take time to exnama Canal. No one denies that this is a very bothered shop stewards and management.
plain why. Most of us are reaserious charge.
vnion officials since our local worker should be given sonable beings, and want to be was chartered the benefit of the doubt on treated as such. Saving hard In the text of the article, Mr. Toledano imPerhaps a worker complains borderline cases. In doubtful feelings is worth a few minuplied that the top level officials of the United about unfair distribution of cases, where it is felt the wor tes time.
Public Workers of America, were or are work, while the facts show ker is largely right, be frank. All trouble arising in the communistic. From the general reaction of the him to be mistaken. Or else Tell him we aren sure of the shop are not matters for griemembers here, it is apparent that they are con he may feel entitled to promo answer. Then get help from vance machinery. For example, the seniority the chief steward, chapter personal differences between fident the officers involved will take care of rating list of his outfit proves chairman or chairman of the employees are not grievances themselves. Besides this feeling of confidence, rim wrong. If the worker was grievance committee in taking and should not be carried to the members seem a bit irked. They seem irke mistaken in his facts or at up the case through the grie the foreman by the steward. If ance procedure, to get a de. the differences are likely to because, from an over all point of view, the titude, it is better to discover cause trouble in the organizacharges seem to include them too. Remember, this than to have the manage sinite ruling.
ment correct us.
Don go out on a limb, pro tion, they may be adjusted they are not worried. There is no doubt in their Also, don forget that good wising a victory you re not through discussion among minds about where their loyalty lay. They sin union money spent on a poor sure of. Rash promises often those involved, in the union cerely believe in a democratic form of govern case, comes out of the mem loomerang, labelling the pro hall, Don be ruled by personal ment. They know this, and the Panama Canal bers pockets. If a case hasn miser unreliable.
a chance but time is spent on Sift complains into reason likes or dislikes or by petty authorities know this. They are irked because it, the men may have to dig able and unreasonable by jealousies. If emotion is allonow, of all times, when it seems as though they own just the same.
esking yourself these ques wed to govern our decisions, When a complaint is not jus tions: Tre shall make enemies and lose have begun to move toward a better economic tified, there is double danger Has the worker right he confidence of the group.
standard of living, this ugly thing should rear in trying to make a grievance been violated. Don let union politics influits head and stand in the path of their progress. cut of it: The workers are led Has the administration ence your wokr. The worker Who is responsible for this thing? Why are they to expect impossible results, acted unfairly?
who voted against you has just and the management or admi. When the answers are Yes, as much right to your servdoing it?
nistration gets a chance to at you have a real grievance. ices as one who voted for you.
The author asks why the new union should tack the union. The union When it is No, the steward include such diverse groups as teachers, hotel GRIEVANCE REPORTS nurses, doctors, power plant workers, truck drivers, painters, machinists, streetcleaners, sales In what seems to be a com presentatives to find the solu It was also found that the girls, bookkeepers. Although all of these ca mendable gesture, certain tions to grienvances presente delay was due not to indiffetegories are not represented among the workers gold supervisors have Co within the last month.
rence but to additional work of the new union, the answer is the same: they cperated 100 with union re There is the case of Miss to be done in the kitchen by are all United States government employees. It Bernice Dingwall, an employee Mrs. Titus.
of the Balboa Clubhouse who The personal file of Mrs.
is that simple.
Junior CIO was given a day suspension Titus was consulted. Her reWhen he said that the justified economic for leaving her post of duty cords showed that the chily ofgrievances of the workers were due to the high By HUGH ADAMS ten minutes before quitting fenses listed against her tere time. Returning to work after a few cases of tardiness and cost of living, he could have included as a pos There isn a place on the the five days, Miss Ding wall in every case, the time sible cause, the low wages of these workers. Canal Zone where colored and was informed by her immedia made up. Again the manageThis is perhaps the most important reason in gold people go to that we te supervisor, Mrs. Bailey, ment and union representati.
con hear the words gold that she was terminated.
their minds.
ves settled the case to the saand silver. If a newcomer meetings was arranged be tisfaction of all concerned.
These workers have no designs nor plans of came to the Canal Zone from tween the management and In the course of screening a political nature that may affect the security heards the words gold and case investigated. Thanks to any foreing country, when he union representative and the grievances, the union organizers have found it necesasry of the Panama Canal. This should be obvious to silver it makes him think of the co operative attitudes of to thow certain cases out becaany investigator who probes that far. It would two metals. But to an Ameri all the parties involved, the use the evidence presented was seem then, that since top governement officials can residing on the Canal Zo case was settled to the satis not true. Every union member have expressed their anxiety over this develop re, it means an unbalanced faction of all concerned. Miss should help the Grievance Com amoutn of facilities.
Dingwall was penalized the mittee by presnting only bona ment a thorough and honest investigation be an issue of the Pitts five days without pay for the fide grievances and then the made and a just and fair remedial program or burgh Journal it is said that cffense she admitted committ shop steward should solve ginated.
the screen actor Orson Welles ing. The termination penalty grievances in the initial stage. aid, The hate for races if was lifted.
nad us a crime and also a con There is the case of Mrs.
tagious disease. In an issue Geneva Titus, an employee o. DRUGS WALLACE PHOTO STUDIO of the monthly magazine EBO the Balboa Clubhouse who was CINES For Portraits that emphasize your Personality. Expert NY, fighter Joe Louis gives a terminated from the service PATENT MEDI.
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proper description of his view for being discourteous to cuson the situation of racial dis tomers and indifferent to duty. TOILET AR.
Roll Films purchase from this store 15c discount and crimination. The fable or wise Mrs. Titus was charged with each roll when return for finishing.
saying All men of the human leaving her post for too long Studio hours: a. to p. ac eare created equal regar a period while customers were BOTICA NUEVA Sundays and holidays a. to 12 p. to p. aless of race, color, creed, or orced to wait. Again manage.
5th Ave Guerrero No. 200 Central Ave. Corner of 31st riginal descent is practically ment and union representatiLei. 403. Colon ignored by the gold people. ves met to investigate. It was Panama City.
Can we get equality. Let found that Mrs. Titus was ab DOWNER, Proprietor try.
sent from her post a long time.
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