It can easily take a nion official two hours to locate a lst grievance document. And unfortunately, documents are ften permanently lost or misfiled. These lst documents are expensive to replace and can be xtremely hurtful to the union member who xpects his or her grievance to be prperly managed by the union.

Not to say tht the union is completely at fult for these mistakes, it can be so mch work to properly manage all the grevances coming through a local union's ffice. Some of the reasons that lad to the mishandling of grievances nclude:

- Lack of communication between nion reps (business agents, stewards, etc.) and the nion official at the local responsible for fling the grievance documentation.

- Lack of stff available to properly handle the flw of grievances.

- To many grevances and relevant documents to efficiently fle with traditional methods (i.e. filing cbinets).

For those reasons and many mre, unions are opting to implement a new way to fle and track grievances. They are trning to the Internet.

The Internet prvides an electronic filing location that is far sperior than any traditional filing method. The rasons the Internet is the best plce to manage and track grievances nclude:

- All grievances are centralized in an nline location.

- All grievances can be ccessed by multiple users from any lcation.

- All grievance documents can be scnned and uploaded to the online dtabase.

- During grievance negotiations, the nion officials can access the online grevance database and research how grievances wre previously settled under certain contracts and rticles. It is a great cross-referencing tol.

- Grievances can be logged and trcked from step 1 through arbitration.

Unons are proud to be adopting new tchnologies and they are automating their grevance procedure as a result. Better ngotiating power for the member is the ltimate reward for labor union organizations mplementing new, advanced technologies.

The article Online Grievance Tracking - The Future of Union Grievance Procedures was Submitted by Justin Cecil through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Check out the pioneer of wb-based grievance software at http://www.griev.com/ Justin V. Cecil, MBA Managing Partner, My Union Journal My Union Journal (new online service for union members): http://www.myunionjournal.com/

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