I worked in a national organization that was full of unions. I swear, the unions only made it worse because their main goal was to put a finger into the eye of management. If they didn't like management they would purposefully slow down, still stay within work standards, but just barely. I'm the kind of guy who will break my neck to get the job done in as little time as possible. The union hated this and began figuring out ways to slow me down. On top of that I had to work under a supervisor who wasn't a good leader and wanted to micromanage. The union official and her hated one another, I just tolerated them both and did my job. If those two people would have disappeared from the work room floor then the entire work production would have increased and everyone would have been happier. Bad employees should be fired, no cause given at times. One day you clock in, the next minute you're give a pink slip and a "thanks for your service" pat on the back. Good riddance !
Unions are like any other organization that started out for a reason, then got turned into a money maker with no oversight for people that don't know what a shovel is for. There's good, decent people in most all of them that are worn down daily with bureaucracy, and if someone gets too efficient at what they do, the slackers that don't know what sweat is step in and start talking them into slowing down, otherwise it makes them look bad. Union management gets money and power by having the most people paying money from every paycheck they can add ("anti-efficiency"), and it isn't until the phrase "offshoring" is used until they get any incentive to do otherwise. And God forbid you mention firing someone that's not a regularly productive worker.
Most the productive union workers will agree with everything I've just stated, but won't say it out loud for fear of repercussions of "going against the herd".
I worked in a national organization that was full of unions. I swear, the unions only made it worse because their main goal was to put a finger into the eye of management. If they didn't like management they would purposefully slow down, still stay within work standards, but just barely. I'm the kind of guy who will break my neck to get the job done in as little time as possible. The union hated this and began figuring out ways to slow me down. On top of that I had to work under a supervisor who wasn't a good leader and wanted to micromanage. The union official and her hated one another, I just tolerated them both and did my job. If those two people would have disappeared from the work room floor then the entire work production would have increased and everyone would have been happier. Bad employees should be fired, no cause given at times. One day you clock in, the next minute you're give a pink slip and a "thanks for your service" pat on the back. Good riddance !
Unions are like any other organization that started out for a reason, then got turned into a money maker with no oversight for people that don't know what a shovel is for. There's good, decent people in most all of them that are worn down daily with bureaucracy, and if someone gets too efficient at what they do, the slackers that don't know what sweat is step in and start talking them into slowing down, otherwise it makes them look bad. Union management gets money and power by having the most people paying money from every paycheck they can add ("anti-efficiency"), and it isn't until the phrase "offshoring" is used until they get any incentive to do otherwise. And God forbid you mention firing someone that's not a regularly productive worker. Most the productive union workers will agree with everything I've just stated, but won't say it out loud for fear of repercussions of "going against the herd".
There is a phrase that is ubiquitous in the trades -- Union pace.