Someone will fill the void left by their absence and prosper.

and city in the Country. The union play is they start all this “collaborative” stuff and rant on how both the employer and the union have an equal interest in effective contract administration. So, they get weak-minded managers to go along with lots of time off for union officers and stewards and in many jurisdictions even paid employer time for the union’s officers and staff. And, of course, that important work can’t be done in the mere 7.5 or 8.0 hr. normal shift, so the union rep gets a guaranteed ten or twelve hoiur day, and the higher ranking ones get a guaranteed six or seven 10s or 12s. So, when you figure all time over forty is time and a half under federal law and many states or labor agreements also give time and a half over 8 hr./dy. You’ve really won the lottery of life when you’re guaranteed 12s and can claim a holiday worked: you get time worked at 8 straight and 4 at time and a half, you get 8 straight as holiday pay, maybe even 12 under some agreements, and you get an additional 12 at time and a half for holiday worked premium pay. That’s a lot of money for a day you never even came near the jobsite.

This is the stuff that has killed the automakers. They didn’t care what their labor costs so long as everybody was on the same pattern, so they agreed to all this crazy crap. No responsible employer would agree to pay a bunch of union officials who are openly and notoriously simply parasites, yet every unionized private employer does some of it and almost every unionized public employer does it.

While Alaska’s State workforce is mostly unionized, we have not been a particulary “union friendly” employer except for a while during the Knowles Administration. Even for an employer that tries to act like a responsible employer dealing with union reps is maddening at times because they have fairly strong legal protections. Linked is a memo setting out Alaska’s policies in dealing with them. I have no illusions that these policies are universally enforced and always assumed that the union reps could do pretty much anythign they wanted so long as nobody from headquaters is looking. Memo here: http://dop.state.ak.us/fileadmin/lr/pdf/representationrevised.pdf

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Everyone who belongs to a union knows these kind of things go on. Most galling to me were the worthless employees always protected by the union. Blatant laziness and incompetence that made everyone look bad was never a cause for dismissal, it usually meant promotion, thanks to the union. As a sixteen year union member one thing that frightened me more than Obama being elected was the amount of money unions spent to get him elected. That kind of money is staggering. If I were still in the union, some of it would have been mine, against my numerous objections. Nothing will change if unions can continue to spend all of their money in this fashion, like the incompetent employees they protect, the corrupt politicians will stay in power. God help us if card check passes.

Between a mob-controlled union and a legit union.

I could cure the union problem and not even be mean or harsh. No union would be able to represent the workers of more than one company and there would be no public unions.

The public is not an oppressive employer, so our workers don’t need to unionize to protect themselves against us.

Private employers can be oppressive, but they can’t oppress workers at other factories. Therefore, the union should only be allowed to represent the workers for that employer and no other.

There could be a UFW (for Ford), a UGMW (for GM), etc. but there couldn’t be any union representing the workers at competing companies.