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Ford employee fired after 11 years for stealing cookie he’d actually paid for (www.dexerto.com)

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A Ford employee says he lost his job after being accused of stealing a $1.95 cookie, only for the company to later realize he’d actually paid for it.

60-year-old Kurt Kromm had worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant for 11 years, but told Shifting Gears he was fired after the company believed security footage showed him taking a cookie from the break room without paying.

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[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 35 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Union didn’t help him at all

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 21 points 2 hours ago

Uhhh.... It didn't help him as much as it should have, but my understanding from watching a video about this yesterday is that he already got paid back for the time after he was fired because of the union. So, it did help him some.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

UAW is an awful organization that's basically a "good old boy"'s club. Most reps are just a revolving door of former execs from the Big 3 anyway who work with their buddies to keep workers at bay.

Getting off topic but I'm all for increasing Union membership in this country, but think we also need to discuss the rot that's in the ones that do exist.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Reading the best democracy money can Buy was a really good read