Quote:
Originally Posted by HOZ
I am going to disagree with your first paragraph. Unions are as needed today as they were in the past. There are companies that would quickly return workers to the level of slave labourers if they could. I have been on both sides of this issue. Been Union and been management and I have seen both dick each other around.
That said, Unions needs to modernize. It is not longer early 20th century. Union need to be flexible and work with management. A good union should be able to work with the company to produce a safe, equitable environment all the while keeping working standards high. UAW and CAW are not these kinds of unions.
|
I don't see that happening in the day and age that we're in. Maybe in developing companies, but not in a market place where your competing not only for the best people, but the best public image working towards recruiting and building your company.
On the second part. I have trouble seeing a Union agreement as being a suicide pact, and that's what the agreements in the auto industry that were negotiated in better economic times is. Unions remove a lot of the abilities for companies to show any kind of agility in the market place. The big three can't adapt to the credit crunch and on coming recession unless the union agreement allows them to renegotiate wages and employment levels until the crisis passes.