> In Sweden this is effectively the only way you can make the "stack ranking": you move a bunch of workers to a special branch or factory. Stack-ranking has be

> In Sweden this is effectively the only way you can make the "stack ranking": you move a bunch of workers to a special branch or factory. Stack-ranking has been horrible every place it's been tried so I'm not really sure how this is a bad thing. From what I've seen in my time in corporate America, poor performers are often kept around regardless of if a union is involved or not for a variety of reasons: * firing someone for performance is a hassle even without any union representation because HR requires careful documentation, * for the manager, firing an employee for performance means admitting that you made a mistake on hiring, * firing the person may put the budget for their salary at risk, and * if layoffs were to happen in the near future the manager will need the person as a sacrificial lamb to protect the rest of the team (this behavior is greatly enhanced by stack ranking, to the point where people are hired specifically so they can later be marked as non-performers and let go in the next culling).