Unions stealing "occupy bostons" thunder

[TheSpecialist]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

I apologize for my misinformed view on how the standards are set. Not living that aspect of dealing with unions, my understanding is definitely limited. I do have to contest one statement though:

There's a difference between being thorough yet efficient with your time - something that produces a quality product/performance in a quicker amount of time - and haphazard laziness that results in being done quicker but at the expense of poor results and potential danger.

There have been a few times now that you've stated blatantly that if someone excels at their job then they must be cutting corners, and I just can't agree with that. I have employees that do high quality work in an hour that takes other employees 1.5-2 hours. I have also let go employees that will do a job in an hour, didn't care about the quality and had no intentions of improving.

Excelling at a job means doing a better job than the typical employee - whether it is through higher quality of work or a more efficient use of time - while not sacrificing other aspects of the work (protocol, safety, etc).

Let me ask you this: have you never heard of a union worker that does quality work, up to safety standards and finishes quickly being told that they need to "slow down" or "find something else to do for a little bit"? If so, you'll be the first union employee I've ever met to say that.

I can tell you for a fact, that out of 35 guys the top 4 producers have been caught skipping safety to increase productivity numerous times. I have witnessed it myself. On top of it we are going back on more of their jobs because something wasn't done right as compared to a guy that takes the time to do it right the first time.

I don't know what business you are into but the problem is that blanket negative, misinformed statements about unions, are like stereotyping people, sure there are some bad systems and some bad apples, but alot more good compared to the bad.

As far as your last statement, we take non productive time, until upper management decides to move the bar again an increase the number. We don't call the shots the managers do.