> you're saying a person can go through a full year/2000 hour
> apprenticeship and still be working a service well? and seniority
> plays a factor? i didn't think unions went by seniority--if you're a
> journeyman/licensed, shouldn't you be on equal ground?
Seniority has always been the rule in any union job. If I understood
Vegastud's post correctly, the senior bartender on the shift no longer has
supervisory authority over subordinates, but they did when I was a union
bartender.
Another difference was we also had Master Bartenders who were above the full
bartenders. That took more training, more testing, and more years to
achieve.Some times there were problems when a long-time tender couldn't pass
the test for Master but had more years than the Master, but it rarely came up
because that type of full bartender didn't usually work at the same kinds of
place.
I will bow to Vegastud on any current union rules.