> Suppose some manager doesn't recognize that you're being a positive influence?
Then one of you is wrong.
Yes, bad managers make bad decisions. A contract doesn't protect you from bad managers - it merely makes it easier to stay around to be subject to their badness. Why do you think that's worth something?
Contracts actually make bad managers look better that they would otherwise. Yes, bad managers survive longer when unions are involved. Why do you want that?
Life's too short to work for a bad manager. Of course, if all managers are bad (for you), maybe they're not the problem.
> People working manufacturing jobs---a skilled trade, you know---take pride in their work and I'm willing to assert, just as blithely as you were willing to assert the opposite, that they'd be plenty willing to try to improve the product, improve processes, etc., if they were but asked (and lots of improvements can, indeed, come from the rank-and-file in that way).
We can test that hypothesis by looking at what they demanded through their union representatives. Care to predict the result of said "look"?
I'll save you the trouble - they didn't demand anything to improve product quality or increase productivity.
On a related note, the head of one of the US teachers unions said that he'd start caring about kids when they started paying dues.
Then one of you is wrong.
Yes, bad managers make bad decisions. A contract doesn't protect you from bad managers - it merely makes it easier to stay around to be subject to their badness. Why do you think that's worth something?
Contracts actually make bad managers look better that they would otherwise. Yes, bad managers survive longer when unions are involved. Why do you want that?
Life's too short to work for a bad manager. Of course, if all managers are bad (for you), maybe they're not the problem.
> People working manufacturing jobs---a skilled trade, you know---take pride in their work and I'm willing to assert, just as blithely as you were willing to assert the opposite, that they'd be plenty willing to try to improve the product, improve processes, etc., if they were but asked (and lots of improvements can, indeed, come from the rank-and-file in that way).
We can test that hypothesis by looking at what they demanded through their union representatives. Care to predict the result of said "look"?
I'll save you the trouble - they didn't demand anything to improve product quality or increase productivity.
On a related note, the head of one of the US teachers unions said that he'd start caring about kids when they started paying dues.