great pay horrible managment - Welder/Fabricator Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
Jan 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

great pay and work schedual with overtime hours if you need some extra income

Cons

union shop not like the union really represents or stands behind their members like in the past. the president of the union hall likes to drink at the hall when he is so called working. I was told if I became a union stewart that I would not be retaliated against. After I became stewart i started getting wrote up for going to the bathroom and other trivial things. next thing i know they tell me to go home that im suspended and that hr would get a hold of me. the union did nothing but lie to me and cost me my job and caterpillar just wanted me out because i would not play by their curropt practices.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Good health insurance and benefits, good yearly bonuses. The pay is good.

Cons

They are enforcing returning to office by any means necessary. They have lost many high-quality producers who have refused to relocate or refuse to come in. Here's the kicker - they are requiring in-person attendance at the Chicago office and there aren't even enough desks for everyone. It would be a literal fire hazard if we all came into the Chicago office at the same time, M-F, during business hours. No one knows how or if they are going to actually enforce this. Cost of gas is insane, Joe doesn't care about the workers. Or the work for that matter. It's obvious this is a soft layoff, they have made a bunch of people quit. Their internal design agency is falling apart, lots of people have quit, not only because of return to office but because of the toxic politics, favoritism, and lack of direction and accountability. Mediocre workers are allowed to keep their jobs ONLY because of their ability to put their bodies in a chair and work in-person. The other relocation option HR gave besides Chicago was Peoria. No one wants to live in Peoria for any reason whatsoever, be for real.

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