Sounds rough. :(
Wish I had a better answer- but the best bet is obviously to get a new job. Second to that is to just turn the brain off at work. Just do what needs to be done and be done with it. Don’t get involved with people. Just be a robot at work and when you’re done with work be applying to other places so you can get out.

My dear little lamb, slaughtered so easily?

There's a difference between company rules and rules of corporate success - none of them have a dam thing to do with the rules of morality.

Looking at your circumstance, you should ask yourself what it is you expect from this job. Is this firm capable of giving it to you....? Chances are, not.
Being the case, do you have it in you to play the game? Do you have what it takes to stab your way to the top? Do you know how to ride dirty? Can you fluff 'em up and make 'em feel good one moment, then shiv a kidney the next?
If this isn't you, I would find different work. It seems they have collectively provided the rules of the game.

J... what happened? What did they do to you?

:fumes: 😠

I'm so sorry this is happening to you! I hope you can find a better place to work.

I know we've spoken about your "job situation " I didn't know it was that bad, Joe.
Sounds like your being bullied right,left and centre.
I still think it's best your find another job,however I know that's not easy at the moment.
I just wish you could get someone else on your side..

They have broken every single rule of grievance investigations. You have to question people separately, not in groups, and to show the original complaint to everyone else is to breach a confidence. That entire HR department in your workplace should be fired.

I suggest that you contact a labour lawyer and seek his/her advice. Do that before you do anything else. You most likely have a case based just on their mishandling of any investigation. If there's any kind of HR standards association in the UK, those chimps should be decertified!

I do not envy you but i share some of the issues, stuff like if you have a problem everyone knows about it including whoever the problem is with. i share some of rockstars view in that just be a robot and do the job because its money in the bank. if theres anyone there that you actually get on with great but if not then theres no real need to get involved with anyone. what is it you do exactly - might help the situation. for example if its something where you have union or something similar you might be able to get in contact with them. but for the love of god get a new job! i know its easier said than done but even if its not something youre used to a change of pace/environment would be good! plus one of us im sure would write you an amazing reference if the people at your work wont ;)

If on top of all this you were getting sexual harassment it would sound like the US Air force Academy.

Sounds completely and totally corrupt. I would try to collect as many people's experiences and stories similar to yours and build up proof and a support team. Then maybe you can try to take it to the BBB and resolve it there? Or escalate it even further than your branch and go to corporate HR and report their wrong-doings.

Do the Dance!

I wrote a whole paragraph and it disappeared.
Oh well, happens.
Get a copy of your collect agreement, union constitution and memorize them.
Install a mental switch, on and off.
It's a paycheck...not a life.
Walk or go to the gym everyday.
Be the robot. No talk, no think and no care. Not your cirrus not your monkeys.
Keep a simple resume handy.
Never respond to management. Let your Stewart reply. Become selectively deaf.
Don't be afraid to walk away from someone but always do your job. Work first grieve later.
Drama bitches are like cancer..they eat the nice and good. I like to think they're all *****whore dogs with only one objective, hump your leg for free.
Best of luck.

Think of the end game. Where you want to be knowing they'll try and ***fuk it up.

Kind of a toothless union, if they're getting hazed like that.

I understand what you're saying, about internalising affairs and disregarding standard procedures. What makes the difference is whom they are cheating and to what extent - these translate to whether or not an external, more powerful entity would start a fray over it. Deceiving customers is pretty much business as usual but there are iso, laws, news media and people who won't tolerate corruption out there.
Whilst soco may have jested, if it's anything like that it's crucial to speak of it. For all their apparent solidarity, crooks will turn on each other when their hide is on the line. With issues such as shifts & work conditions, as is the case with my father, there's not all that much legal protection (at least here), can do naught but grit your teeth and chalk up another employer on the naughty list (ha ha, sorry) till you can afford an alternative.

If possible, surreptitiously record the shenanigans. Build an audio library with accompanying memos for all recordings. Your cell phone can be set up to record video and audio without anyone knowing. I used SVR pro as a PI.

I smell a lawsuit.

Maybe talk to someone higher and not involved, or talk to an employment lawyer.

You wave your right to a lawyer(while in a union) unless the union gives you written permission to hire one.
Well, I guess you have to read your collective agreement. Plus you may have to talk to your National Representative (or Local President) and look into steward training. You might be able to work for the local executive as a recording Secretary or Sargent at Arms until you gain the experience on how to deal with these fudgetards. But know it's not healthy and time is worth then a wage.

One more thing. You are allowed to write your own grievances to help your rep. Bombard them with them. It costs about 15000 a grievance. Three a day times ten days= 450,000...get me:)

You're not allowed to hire your own. The union and the industrial labour relations board represents you. Their your agent. It Law. They want you to fight your own union..that's why they do that

Keep your job.

After you fix this...then look:)

Plus you have a human rights commission you can speak too.
They may investigate.
Sadly if people didn't need money they'd have no power!
Never let them see you sweat.

Not your problem it's theirs. Did they write you up?
Write them up three different violations for every one they give you.
Maybe express that you wish to be involved with health and safety as well.
I don't know if you realize this yet, but I'm a professional fighter and the only thing that would prevent me from helping you if I was there, would be your fear or anger. Important rule; never express either. Never talk..only write and write carefully and record.

Bad time of year I know but the evil, ball-less bastards get off on picking on people. Worst case scenario, go to your doctor and tell him or her you can't take the stress and go out on stress leave until you're better.

Thank you very much and have a nice day:)

What is their end-game Joe? What is the purpose for their actions? If it was to get rid of you they would have done so by now. You do your job. You show up and leave on time; butttz in seats is what one of my employers told me. Is this only happening to you or are you only aware of it because it is you? Be careful that your own actions do not bring even more retaliation against you. Don't be the weevil in a game of wack-a-mole.

Sometimes we can into a pissing contest and it's exhausting.

What would it take to learn the different job?

Sometimes it's good to get out of your comfort zone . . .

. . . but you don't want a job where you would be set up for failure!

Just remember this:

You won't get out of this world alive. There is either heaven awaiting you, or the universe will simply end one day, after the last proton disintegrates into a flash of infinitesimal energy. Either way, this earth and everything on it will vanish.

In other words, no reason to sweat anything on this planet.

Remember, also, that there is no task, no test, no challenge that is too difficult for you. To use a Western analogy, you are Doc Holliday going into the OK Corral. Because of your confidence, your skill and the support of your friends, you know that you are going to emerge victorious.

And you can always eat the people who annoy you! ;-)

Have you been looking for a new job? Or the same one but at a different place? I like to scroll through Indeed.com every now and then just to see what's out there.

Move to the USA. I need a new room mate. And business is booming in this area....there are far less workers than jobs that need to be filled

Jk. I know that wouldn't be feasible. But I really do hooe that the new position ends up being better than you thought it would be....

You don't want to move up in the company yet you hate where you are and can't afford to leave.

So how soon will we be reading about the disgruntled ex-employee that shot and killed X number of coworkers in the UK?

Understand this to be true. Work or earning a living has everybody stuck. How we earn a wage isn't who we are. Owe money happens, but letting this eat you up isn't any good. Do a 180 and try to put yourself on another plane. Very hard nut very rewarding. Follow the ones that have mastered this game:) Change sucks but after you punch out you don't have to! There is more you life then worrying about them. It's a hole don't fall into it.

Naaaaah, don't do any of that. You are more than equal to any job in that organization! If other people can do it, so can you!

Any job seems difficult and complex until you break it down into its component parts and learn how to do each of them. Then you just do them in sequence.

Don't think of dragons out there--just little bunny rabbits!

FIND someone in that new team to mentor you. ADMIT you will need some help in "learning the ropes." That will mark you as someone willing to learn.

You could soon make yourself indispensable!

I think Joe is indispensable already. But I'm biased because I love her accent....

You won't have laboratory proof for all wrongdoing. That is why management needs to investigate. Almost impossible to prove Harvey Weinstein exploited women--but there are too many accusations to deny they happened.

And, remember--Confucius said, "Only thing worse than stress on job is stress without any job!" ;-)

So how is it going now?

ohhh let us know what occurs

By all means, tell us . . .

How did it all turn out?

OK, it didn't turn out like you had hoped.

But all is not lost!

In the US, you get double-pay for holidays. And what was done to you is known as "reprisals." Very illegal in US & Canada, and I'm sure in UK as well.

The union there must be an invertebrate species!

It smells like the manager controlled the meeting instead of your union rep? Take notes and show no emotion:)

The management team there sounds like they once ran one of the workhouses in Charles Dickens' England!

What a bunch of losers!

Sounds like they've really got it in for you, Joe. Bullying b******s.

Really--how GOOD is the union you have there? It sounds to me like they've been neutered. A union rep is not allowed to speak during a meeting? What does he do--mouth words to you that requires lip reading? I mean, what GOOD is a union that is so hamstrung?

Here's something you could toss out . . . it could be possible to sue both management AND the union. I know you don't want to go that far, as you'd probably have to shell out a lot of money up front. I found out some time ago that British lawyers do not like to work on a contingency fee basis.

Ultimately, the solution is to find another job. In the meantime, don't let them beat you. Continue to document everything. If it's legal in the UK, record some interactions with management.

And be sure you don't do anything that would give them justification to let you go.

There are organizations that are as mentally disturbed and dysfunctional as some individuals!

I'm impressed with this reply. You seem to understand the events and I understand your frustration. It's hard to keep your income, battle buttwipe liars and maintain your health while representing yourself with a dead weight union representative. Some unions have "PEL" paid educational leave. Do you have this available? I'm thinking of you taking a steward's training coarse.