My supervisor wants to issue me a verbal/written counseling. Can I have you attend the meeting with me?

Counselings are not considered a disciplinary action, and as such the Agency does not have to allow us to attend those meetings.  Some supervisors are OK if you want to have union representation while others will say no.  If they do issue a counseling without a union representative present, unfortunately it does not violate the Master Agreement and we cannot fight them solely based on that.