This company hired temporaries to fill full time positions and keeps them in that position for years without hiring them and this is just one of the ways this company violates it's own "Follett Values" which in itself is a joke. I retired because of this but the remaining people need to start thinking about forming a Union before it is to late. Do not think this company won't throw you under the bus.
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There are some managers that aren't what you describe. They are in alliance with their staff. I am one.
Union organization is highly unlikely. Take action on your own. Organize your work group. Choose a day that won't impact business. Everyone calls in sick. That will cause a stir. Everyone has to stick together. If management continues to do things you don't like, the next sick out happens when it will hurt the business. Again, everyone sticks together. To date management has isolated single employees. They've abused them and culled them. If employees stick together, they win against this incompetent band of "managers".
Textbooks are DYING! Union is not the answer. This leadership sucks. I understand what you are trying to say but it will never happen.
You're wrong about the union. A union would prevent the abuse that has characterized Follett's preferred method of driving its longest tenured employees out. A union would also give labor a seat at the table. If management is running too fast and too destructively a unified labor force has the ability to stop the malfeasance and incompetence. A union would help the workers and it would help this lame management team. A union would benefit Follett.
A union? Not happening. Nor should it. This is a sign of the times. Follett has been behind the 8 ball for years. Home office was king and they didn't listen to a dam thing anyone in the field had to say.
Well, AO was pretty darn clear that her priority was greater profit and increased stock values. And she was going to get it by outsourcing and cutting costs (i.e. employees and benefits). Follett family owns this.
When AO passed away, who filled her shoes? why, a 20s something yabo with a degree in music theory who was promptly given the keys to the kingdom, that's who. We went from trained lawyer to Collin Farrel's character from "Horrible Bosses." My, My, what we need now is a Kevin Spacy..
These changes were all driven by the Follett family. Outsourcing, cutting benefits, layoffs. Follett family owns it. We know what the Follett family values most.