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> Things like making sure that AI isn't used in certain capacities to reduce the staff size wouldn't be unreasonable. Yes it would. Explicitly demanding ineffi
by morgante 2y ago
> Things like making sure that AI isn't used in certain capacities to reduce the staff size wouldn't be unreasonable.
Yes it would. Explicitly demanding inefficiency is exactly why unions are terrible for innovation and progress.
- rincebrain 2y agoThere's likely always going to be tension between how many people management thinks are necessary to do the work and the reality of people not working like machines. If the union workers think that management would like to cut things so much that it will cause the quality of the resulting work to suffer drastically, to say nothing of their health, then they're not arguing for inefficiency. And if they don't trust that any sort of metric for "good enough" wouldn't be gameable since the management has more expensive lawyers to write contracts than them, a blanket rule makes more logical sense than trying to bet you didn't leave a loophole. (All opinions my own, obviously.)
- cess11 2y agoThat's a strawman. The demand you're quoting is to not fire people.
- paperplatter 2y agoKeeping employees they don't need/want is an inefficiency.
- cess11 2y agoNo, which is why worker owned organisations tend to be more resilient to downturns.