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The most important thing that unions do is raise safety standards. "Decreased unionization rates in the United States have been linked to an increase in occupa
by chasil 2y ago
The most important thing that unions do is raise safety standards.
"Decreased unionization rates in the United States have been linked to an increase in occupational fatalities."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union#Health https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union#Health
"The Local Average Treatment Effect of a 1% decline in unionisation attributable to RTW is about a 5% increase in the rate of occupational fatalities. In total, RTW laws have led to a 14.2% increase in occupational mortality through decreased unionisation."
https://oem.bmj.com/content/75/10/736 https://oem.bmj.com/content/75/10/736
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoA union worker forgot bolts on the door plug on the Alaska plane, and workers from the other union (SPEEA) designed MCAS, which was one of the causes of the two 737 Max crashes.
- defrost 2y agoSo? These were procedural errors - the company cut back on previously enforced protocols to check and double check work. In general unions are pro health and safety procedures and have no objection to work quality procedural checks either. It's the cost cutting culture imported from the non-Boeing crowd imported post merger that is at fault here. You're simply having a cheap shot at unions here rather than making any observation of depth.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y ago> In general unions are pro health and safety procedures Management and non union workers at Boeing would make the same claim. > You're simply having a cheap shot at unions here rather than making any observation of depth. I could be wrong. The part we do have evidence about is who did the work - it’s the union workers. It seems to me like some think the people doing the problematic work somehow don’t share in accountability at all. I think it is unlikely that only management or executives or the “company” or whoever is solely at fault.