Due to the extreme rain and flooding in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas, on Friday, Pit Res buildings have been without water since early Saturday morning. No bathrooms or water, hot or cold! PORTO JOHNS outside the building for two days now. Agents are extremely upset that they must work under these conditions! At night it is extremely dark around the buildings and they are near garbage bins and some agents have reported rats near the make shift bathrooms.
What is the union doing about this situation? How sanitary is this? Has OSHA been called? To my knowledge any work place must have hot running water. How can management expect anyone to work under these conditions? Guaranteed if this was a weekday US would be the only business in operation in those office buildings. Winston Res would have been shut down since Friday.
This is an outrage to the PIT agents. Just another example of how they are treated like crap by management.
To top it off, Allegheny County and surrounding counties were declared a State of Emergency and disaster areas on Friday. Due to the extreme flooding of many main and side roads and whole communities many many agents were unable to get to work despite efforts. Many roads were closed, people had to be rescued from homes and vehicles, one boy, just a few miles from the PIT Res center, was swept away and his body has yet to be found, emergency vehicles floating in water up to the windows, bridges washed away, and major losses to homes and businesses. But......US Airways management has NOT YET decided if they are going to count the call offs on Friday as occurances or not. Just beautiful!!!!!!
Now is the time for the CWA to get involved and do something!!!!! No water, no bathrooms, unsanitary conditions, occurances for a State of Emergency situation, no respect for employees!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the union doing about this situation? How sanitary is this? Has OSHA been called? To my knowledge any work place must have hot running water. How can management expect anyone to work under these conditions? Guaranteed if this was a weekday US would be the only business in operation in those office buildings. Winston Res would have been shut down since Friday.
This is an outrage to the PIT agents. Just another example of how they are treated like crap by management.
To top it off, Allegheny County and surrounding counties were declared a State of Emergency and disaster areas on Friday. Due to the extreme flooding of many main and side roads and whole communities many many agents were unable to get to work despite efforts. Many roads were closed, people had to be rescued from homes and vehicles, one boy, just a few miles from the PIT Res center, was swept away and his body has yet to be found, emergency vehicles floating in water up to the windows, bridges washed away, and major losses to homes and businesses. But......US Airways management has NOT YET decided if they are going to count the call offs on Friday as occurances or not. Just beautiful!!!!!!
Now is the time for the CWA to get involved and do something!!!!! No water, no bathrooms, unsanitary conditions, occurances for a State of Emergency situation, no respect for employees!!!!!!!!!!!
If there are OSHA issues with anything in the PIT building, then someone from management or CCY needs to check it out. Its their responsibility to make sure if the employees have issues. If the situation checks out and is nothing more than an inconvenience, then they're in the clear. CWA should be checking on the conditions of their members though and if there IS a problem, it needs to be addressed. Since you and I are not there working in the conditions they report, its kind of hard to pass judgement on their concerns (for some of us at least).
