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Originally Posted by falconfixer
In my last position in aviation we had a unionized workforce that turned the wrenches. When they went on stike because $34 an hour wasn't enough money, the salaried folks had to step in and fill the roles of aircraft mechanics. By day 2 production increased 42% and we flew more sorties in the 8 week period than ever before or since. True story. Unions can go **** themselves right out of existence.  |
Fair enough -- unions tend to create "wage compression", meaning that they tend to leverage earnings closer to white collar workers (although, note that some white collar jobs -- such as teachers -- also have unions...), but the end result is typically that more people have a shot at earning a decent living, so I get what you are saying, but its hard for me to fault that as a general principal.
Frankly, even salaried workers (and the entire service industry) should be organized -- its just primarily a blue collar production oriented beast by nature.
BTW, by shifting the work to you guys, the aviation company saved themselves money, no doubt -- but did you guys at least earn overtime?
It's a tug of war -- the primary purpose of organized labor/collective bargaining is to have a mechanism by which to tug things in the direction of the workers. It doesn't have to be a good vs evil thing... but a mechanism by which more people can earn a decent living is probably more good than not.