youre working well enough to keep your job, so i think you should get a raise for the time you spend working there. if you did a horrible job, you deserve to get shit-canned. if you do your job well enough to keep it, then you deserve a raise for becoming a vested employee instead of switching companies....thats how i see it at least. union employees cant just show up and stick their thumb up their ass and get by...you will get fired. union contracts have work loads established that employees must follow, if you arent up to par, you are open to a union contact, followed by a hearing...at the hearing disciplinary will be taken, whether its suspension or termination depends on frequency etc for example: where i work, we have it written into our contract that we must handle 1200 packages per hour..... if i slouch around and do 600 per hour, i will receive a contact and end up at a hearing...if i bust my balls and do 1800 per hour, i will be treated the same as the person doing 1200.... if they wanted more work done, they should make that a requirement of the job, instead they say how much they want done, what their goals are, etc....you get what you ask for - ask me to do 1200/hr and im going to do 1200/hr, not 1800/hr