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Nice anecdotes, but they also have rooms where workers they don't need and can't fire come in and sit for 8 hours everyday. The unions are a millstone around th
by Prrometheus 18y ago
Nice anecdotes, but they also have rooms where workers they don't need and can't fire come in and sit for 8 hours everyday. The unions are a millstone around their neck.
Airlines, car makers, government, schools. Four sectors that are unionized, four sectors that are grossly inefficient, four sectors that are kept alive by taxpayer money.
- eru 18y agoAny sources for the 'sitting rooms'?
- benzim 18y agohttp://wsjclassroom.com/archive/06may/auto2_jobsbank.htm http://wsjclassroom.com/archive/06may/auto2_jobsbank.htm 15,000 workers are paid to do nothing.
- timr 18y agoFrom the linked article: "While GM often blames "legacy costs" such as retiree health care and pensions for its troubles, its Jobs Bank SHOWS THAT THE COMPANY HAS INFLICTED SOME WOUNDS ON ITSELF. Documents show that GM itself helped originate the Jobs Bank idea in 1984 and agreed to expand it in 1990, seeing it as a stopgap until times got better and workers could go back to the factories. The idea was to help train or find jobs for senior UAW employees who would "otherwise be permanently laid off" because of better technology or higher productivity. Ford later matched the plan for its UAW employees." (emphasis mine) I couldn't have linked to a better article to help make my point -- the management is so incompetent that they would rather have senior employees sitting idle than simply giving them retirement or severance packages. That kind of goofy, short-sighted thinking wasn't imposed upon GM management by the UAW.