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My employer "encourages" everyone to clock in for the day and from lunch up to 7 minutes early.
My employer also likes to take any and every opportunity to punish people for "abusing breaks" which here means "you walked to the break area and took your 15 minute break and walked back to your station" instead of "15minutes starts at your station and ends at your station so you really only get an 8-12 minute break depending on how far you have to walk.
And forget about bathroom breaks outside your 15s and lunch.
My employer also pays the same every single week, regardless of whether you clocked in 7 minutes early every day or exactly on time.
My employer calls our "abuse" of breaks and lack of clocking in early "wage theft"
The first time I got written up for going to the bathroom and he said "wage theft" I went and printed out 100 copies of a wage theft guide with sources and graphs to demonstrate how employers are the #1 driver of wage theft and it's not even close. Plastered them all over where there are no cameras.
Sounds like you're on your way to starting a union. Keep going.
I've slowly gotten a couple people around on "collective bargaining", I'm avoiding using the big scary U word to them