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An electrician completes his work shift installing a solar panel system while wearing gloves.
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Got fired for demanding to take a lunch break
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A one-hour break for folks who work in trades that require physical labor isn't even standard practice. In fact, it's below standard practice in many parts of the world. If anyone has found themselves in a similar position as this electrician, do yourself a favor and contact your union representative to see what can be done. You might be more protected in these scenarios than you even realize.
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An electrician inspects the solar panel system he's installing.
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It's upsetting that the other electricians at this company had accepted these subpar conditions, seemingly without much pushback. This kind of phenomenon just goes to show that so many folks out there are too afraid to rock the boat when what's at stake here is basic decency for workers.
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An electrician completes his work shift installing a solar panel system while wearing gloves.
Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.
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We empathize with the electrician's experience and hope that he's on to finding a better situation, one in which he gets a chance to ensure that these contractual negotiations will be honored once he's fully onboarded so as to avoid this kind of thing happening again in the future.
Keep scrolling below to see what several members of this online community had to say about the electrician's unnecessary search for a job that allows him to eat his lunch in peace.
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