[TheForge] OT Union Rant (Was Re: concrete)

[Larry and Pat Brown]

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> > I think that whether Unionized or not, there are employees that are
> > interested in making a quality product. There are also people who are
> > simply there to get their time in and get their check. They're not
> > interested in the product, or whether they're doing the best job they can.
> > And those people also can have a Union sticker on their bumper or not.
> > (Although knowing how hard it can be to fire a totally incompetent union
> > represented employee, even for well documented just cause, I tend to think
> > that such an employee will last longer in a Union job than not)
> >
> > Aaron
>
>And this last statement is exactly why Unions are now a bad thing. There
>should be no person who is exempt form quality or workmanship standards.
>If you are not up to snuff then you should be gone. It is all part of
>the free market and capitalism ideal that should be in place but has
>been perverted.
>
>Ralph
>
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Many Unions have learned their mistakes and are now stressing training, 
work competence, quality and in many cases they work to get the job done 
safely and ahead of schedule. Drug use and drinking are no longer tolerated 
by many unions and padding the pay role with dead wood employees is not an 
option. Extra people mean the job should go faster not that they are to be 
sleeping or spectating. The Unions are fighting now to change the image 
they got in the last few decades and many of the old practices are out as 
they realize that this is the only way to compete and keep their membership 
working.

There will always be dead weight on all jobs. Many of the problem workers 
I've worked with are now gone. In time the dead weight will be off the 
higher paying labor jobs, unfortunately it will probably be kept in 
management as it is a hard place to fight nepotism.
L Brown






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