Comment by nashashmi
6 years ago
Union rules are about making sure a management team does not subject employees to random jobs. It is a about adding a control over management.
In other words, in my office an employee is not allowed to hang a whiteboard on to a wall. Because building mandates only union employees can make such hardware modifications.
Fine you are protecting the job of the union but what you are really doing is prevent job creep or scope creep.
Another hypothetical example: no employee is allowed to work past 5 pm. Sure hardworking employees want to. But when they do, the put the pressure on other employees to do the same. This kind of culture is net negative.
> Fine you are protecting the job of the union but what you are really doing is prevent job creep or scope creep.
I think that should really read "Fine you are trying to prevent scope creep but what you are really doing is protecting the union jobs."
I've had my own experience of being forced to wait for a union worker to report onsite to accomplish a basic thing, only to be told when he showed up an hour after requested "If I didn't use the time in the job order, they'd just reduce the time alloted for the next one, and we'd get docked for running over."
Pick a metric and it will restructure the entire working environment to meet that metric, no matter how illogical or inefficient things become.
Keep adding more rules to close the loopholes in the process and you get the craziness in some jobs where things can't get done because there's no way through the red tape anymore.
It is not the fault of the union then. It is the fault of rules and structure provincially eliminating minute problems and creating larger problems as a result.
It is also about territory control. You don't want to give up power to someone else. Typical society problems. The solution lies in how do you practice friendship with someone so cunning and selfish that you can be in the loosing seat quickly, yet still be friends and still be on neutral ground?
> rules and structure provincially eliminating minute problems and creating larger problems as a result
Rules and structure created by the union.