FX Crowley: I recently met a business owner who told me that if his employees want to unionize, he’d feel that he failed them.
I pondered the root of that statement. If he were talking strictly about economics and work conditions, I can see why he might feel this way. Employees who want to join a union are usually motivated by the promise of better pay, benefits and improved working conditions. The guy with whom I was speaking feels that he meets these expectations.
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During tech management last year, molly made a generalized comment about how union members were or were not better employees than the average laborer. It was that Local 1 is great to work with, but as the numbers get larger, the quality of the work generally declines. She did not mean that as a hard and fast rule, but to some extent it is true. The reason being that the larger numbered locals are typically in areas that are smaller with fewer personnel, and were later to form as locals. The problem of course with negotiating with a single organization for multiple peoples contracts, you have their word to go on about the quality of the labor they are providing you. Of course it is in their best interest to provide the best possible people, as that gives them a good reputation, and gives a better negotiating position. But in areas where the union labor pool is not so large, the unions can only provide what they have, and are sometimes less reliable than people you might know.
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