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Now it is holding up new contract negotiations between the union and the company's management.
The union alleges the company verbally harasses injured workers. It says WaterSaver Faucet also wants to employ workers designated "temporary" so they can't join the union. Also on the table is a proposal for the company to adopt paid sick days and a minimum $15 hourly wage.
But getting in the way of these issues is the company's recently instituted bathroom policy.
Since June, workers started facing disciplinary action if they used more than 60 minutes of bathroom time over 10 days, according to a government complaint. That's an average of about six minutes a day.
Also, workers can earn $1 a day for not using the bathroom during working hours. CEO Steven Kersten said last month the company gave out 25 gift cards to those workers.
Workers marched last Monday in Chicago carrying a toilet, a symbol of their struggle with WaterSaver Faucet Co. Union representative Nick Kreitman said the company tracks how often employees swipe in to use the bathrooms and has spreadsheets on every employee's bathroom use.
He filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board in June claiming WaterSaver unfairly disciplined 19 workers for excessive bathroom visitation.
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WaterSaver's CEO said though he has no proof, he believes some people spend too much time in the bathroom because they are Facebooking and texting. Cell phones are banned on the factory floor at the company.
WaterSaver also did not respond to requests for comment on the union's specific allegations, but said it never stops workers from going to the bathroom.
"We have never given any minutes, seconds, or hours," said Sunny Anderson, a human resources administrator at WaterSaver.
Workers of the faucet company at the protest last Monday. At a meeting last week the union offered to get the bathroom debacle behind it -- the company could add shielding material at its washrooms to block cell phone signals.
And the company should drop its bathroom swipe-in policy.
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When asked about the proposal, CEO Kersten said he had no comment.
Although no one's been fired or suspended for bathroom breaks yet, the union is worried about another round of disciplinary measures.
That's because at the start of the month the company doles out both the warnings and the gift cards based on the previous month's bathroom usage.
First Published: August 4, 2014: 10:10 AM ET
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