you found one example after asking me to find justification for your point. you said some crazy stuff and ask someone else to show proof? cmon. plus the 2nd example from a different year you found is 10 percent of what that one example is. I bet you that's a typo. find me multiple examples and I might be on board and that's from 2011, 8 years ago. that does not happen today if it ever did which I don't believe.
also, I have worked at small facilities. I have heard that stuff before. the managers you've heard that crap from are bad managers I agree. but not at every small tower. maybe in your experience, I'm not saying its better or worse but I hear different things from many different people. is training being accomplished? is leave being approved? they have given up their budget because they sell the fact they can get away with not using what they were given at the beginning of the fiscal. ask a manager what their overtime budget is and they should be able to tell you I they don't they are in some delusional world that says they cant. there is nothing that says they cant. if managers aren't using the overtime to staff the facility correctly than you have had bad fac reps who have not appropriately convinced anyone that they need those bodies to conduct the work of the facility, training, de briefs, or whatever and need those bodies for staffing. Instead let me guess those facreps sat on their hands and didn't complain to those managers much because employees breaks were fine, elms were done, training was completed. if that wasn't completed and they were using DEVs as staffing, then your facrep had zero accountability to rewrite the MOUs so that wouldn't happen, if the MOUs were written appropriately than management wouldn't have a choice and would have to assign the overtime. blame management all you want I'm with you when those managers are bad, but they do not get bonues for not using overtime and the local union is just as much to blame. show me proof. I bet you wont find it.
and the TRBs I agree that's a huge problem, but the workforce is just as much to blame, why do something if no one is watching? where is the union at those facilities? the DEV is the one responsible to keep track of their time, where are the trainers on writing reports? or teaching correctly? why leave it up to management when we all know they wont do the job correctly? why doesn't the workforce help those people out?