Help me. I have a background in labour, from a long time ago now, but I've done a lot of this and have trouble understanding how staffing issues, which constitute arguably the biggest area of consternation.... Certainly when I was a union steward and a local union president, that was one of my biggest issues: dealing with bumpings, postings, new jobs, and who's qualified and who isn't. Then you get into the light duty stuff, and people moving around.... All of that is governed by the collective agreement. It's the only thing that keeps the place free from chaos during the course of a day. I don't understand how you can exist in a world where you're the collective bargaining agent representing the workers, but when it comes to staffing issues you have no collective agreement upon which to offer up representation.
Is it as bizarre as it sounds, or am I missing something?