Unions In Government
We expect our government to provide top notch service and to be responsive to our needs. We are paying good money, through taxes, tariffs, tolls, and other extortion methods to keep our government officials frolicking on the luxury to which they have become accustomed. Of course, they have set the bar themselves, so it is a matter of what manner of luxury you can dream of that defines accustomed. But this is not about those, we have zombie voted into office. It is about why we have allowed civil service employees to organize into unions and why it is so difficult to remove incompetent workers from their jobs.
As an employee of a unionized company, I recognize the needs of the members of a work force to be protected from the excesses of management stupidity. There are plenty of decisions made by upper management that resemble the aftermath of a tornado. Of course, the flip side of the equation is that hourly associates are constantly making bad decisions about work related situations that result in cost to their employer. Very simple things like not showing up for work, leaving early, making scrap parts, or failure to follow directions can cost a company a significant amount of money in the short term and over time. Many times, the union will protect an employee even when they know that employee willfully and knowingly did something that caused harm to the business. That does not mean that the employee cannot be fired. It may be difficult to accomplish, but getting rid of bad employees in the private sector does happen. But civil service employees are a different matter.
I am not saying that civil service employees are poor performers. In any job, there are people who are there to do the job and do whatever it takes. There are also lazy, sloven, worthless people who are there to do as little as possible and complain about the little they do. These are the people that I am addressing. Now, we have placed people with that work ethic in secure government jobs and when they do not perform, we are stuck with their lack of performance. To boot, we have officials that we have elected that support this behavior. We should expect our government to be responsive to what they have promised. Allowing workers for life to unionize sounds depressingly like what Stalin did for his mighty USSR. He created a level of apathy that has been very difficult for Russia to get past. When there is no incentive to perform task beyond the minimum level and then only when threatened, it does not make for anything less than a recipe for disaster. Hopefully as the baby boomers start to retire in the next few years and discover that they are getting the public sector standard for their retirement issues, they will assist their elected representatives in making better decisions about how the government is run. Throw the pigs out.
Wake up comrade! You are having a delusion. It is time for morning gruel and our trek to the salt mines.
Icool
Cobb
As an employee of a unionized company, I recognize the needs of the members of a work force to be protected from the excesses of management stupidity. There are plenty of decisions made by upper management that resemble the aftermath of a tornado. Of course, the flip side of the equation is that hourly associates are constantly making bad decisions about work related situations that result in cost to their employer. Very simple things like not showing up for work, leaving early, making scrap parts, or failure to follow directions can cost a company a significant amount of money in the short term and over time. Many times, the union will protect an employee even when they know that employee willfully and knowingly did something that caused harm to the business. That does not mean that the employee cannot be fired. It may be difficult to accomplish, but getting rid of bad employees in the private sector does happen. But civil service employees are a different matter.
I am not saying that civil service employees are poor performers. In any job, there are people who are there to do the job and do whatever it takes. There are also lazy, sloven, worthless people who are there to do as little as possible and complain about the little they do. These are the people that I am addressing. Now, we have placed people with that work ethic in secure government jobs and when they do not perform, we are stuck with their lack of performance. To boot, we have officials that we have elected that support this behavior. We should expect our government to be responsive to what they have promised. Allowing workers for life to unionize sounds depressingly like what Stalin did for his mighty USSR. He created a level of apathy that has been very difficult for Russia to get past. When there is no incentive to perform task beyond the minimum level and then only when threatened, it does not make for anything less than a recipe for disaster. Hopefully as the baby boomers start to retire in the next few years and discover that they are getting the public sector standard for their retirement issues, they will assist their elected representatives in making better decisions about how the government is run. Throw the pigs out.
Wake up comrade! You are having a delusion. It is time for morning gruel and our trek to the salt mines.
Icool
Cobb
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