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Join Date: Apr 2004
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I agree completely that unhappy workers would be the ones to seek representation. It's sad that there are still companies out there that just don't get it and continue to operate in the dark ages. They got what was coming to them. A sister company of mine is part union and part non-union. They work in the same safe work environment but the union group threatened to strike if they didn't get the level of benefits they wanted, including benefits for retirees. So their health benefits are better than their peers who chose not to be in the union. That actually drove up the cost of the medical benefits astronomically for all... since having different plans in the same health contract increases the administrative costs with the carriers, amongst other things. The union didn't much care about that. Their copays are still better than everyone else's. Never mind that their premiums are only 27% of the total cost and the company picks up the rest. Additionally, and I could go on all day on this stuff, some of the union employees have even filed a grievance for being held accountable for shoddy work! You have no idea how unproductive something like that is. You end up with the employee, the representative, HR manager, and the employee's manager all wrapped up for hours discussing something as simple as an production employee not making rate or sleeping on the job. I've been on both sides of the fence and will never work in a unionized company. In my line of work, I'd have to sit at the negotiating table and frankly couldn't stomach it. I'd rather eat spiders and wade in crap. |
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