Being told my job description was changed after I joined

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I work in the public sector. I am at pay level X.

I am being asked to do more and more at pay level Y. Pay level Y is higher than mine.

It’s getting to the that more of my working week is being spent picking up these responsibilities than doing my own work, and it’s starting to become a lot. I have been told that my job description was amended to say that I’d pick up these responsibilities when required, but that there was a consideration that after a period of time, I’d be moved up a pay level.

It’s not happening, I’ve been waiting for months for the confirmation and I’m being told it’s not progressing very fast. AIBU to join a union regarding this because I just feel exhausted each day. The actual pay difference isn’t much, but the higher pay level comes with the opportunity for your pay to progress, quite substantially, when you’ve been there for a certain period of time. I’m missing out on that at the moment and I feel a bit burnt out.

Mine paid for an employment lawyer when i was illegally fired, and was in and out of court for months, they then helped me when i was harassed at work, and again when we were being shafted over an office relocation. Then they helped me again when i had to claim unemployment money and there were questions about how and why the company i worked for were going bust.

Often what i find when people say "they couldn't help me" is that the union lawyers who know the law inside out and back to front have said there is no case to fight.

ETA: obviously the nursing and midwifery unions have not helped their members recently on certain issues. That is a whole other thing though

Hopefully you are in a union. If not, politely raise a grievance ... they will then have to deal with it.

My apologies, I missed the context of her reply.

No, they're there to help everyone, not just you. So you join and pay in so that everyone can get help as, y'know, a union. I guess you mean you're not ideologically aligned because you only give a shit about yourself. Hard to take the moral highground with your exploitation case on that basis. I mean, I'm sure a nice union rep will help you out, but it would be good for you to rethink your ideological position thereafter.

Well that's taking the piss!

For the core question of job description changes, it can be changed to a degree, to evolve over time.
Changing beyond a reasonable level (in public sector this may be expressed in a percentage)

Changing the job description on the future potential of a grade change is not acceptable in this manner.
That triggers a full change in the role, and be subject to re-application to the new role. Not updating here and there with a grade / salary uplift

This is grievance territory, which does not require union membership, but without the union you don’t be the additional representation

With regard to membership / non membership there is a degree of benefit to non members as the relevant union is consulted on pay. Members have the opportunity to vote on consultations, non members don’t. Salaries are as per the grade so non members benefit from the unions collective bargaining (if it advantages negotiations)

The union may have rules on duration to qualify for the full benefit, but there could be a level of dedication by a union rep called to support a new member who has joined to benefit from support on an existing issue

Rubbish! My DH is a union rep in the civil service and he would recommend anyone treated unfairly regardless of when they joined.

Your husbands union might. Mine doesn't represent people who's issues predate them joining.