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Originally Posted by puckhog
My problem with unions is that they don't seem to value hard work; advancing within a union is often more about seniority than effort or quality of work. In fact, from what I've heard, it often happens that union members are actually discouraged from hard work in order not to make the other members look bad. I'm by no means saying this is always the case, but how could anyone possibly defend this attitude?
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From what I've heard, most police think black people are scum. I'm not saying all police are bad, but how could anyone defend the police for thinking that? What is this? "How often do you beat your wife?" day?
I can tell you right now that your premise is flat out wrong for the two unions that I have been a part of in my life. My steward has personally come up to me and said "I saw that project you guys put in last month. It looks really good. You guys did a bang up job on it." Stuff that MANAGEMENT should have been saying I got from the union rep. Now, I am quite sure that this guy was saying this as a fellow employee and not on behalf of the union, but it is consistant with the attitudes that I have found within my union. There is a strong desire to see the membership excel on behalf of the employer (and in turn provide a benefit to the taxpayer). Maybe this isn't true of all unions, and probably not even true for all public servant unions, but to claim that "unions don't seem to value hard work" is wrong as it is clear to me that there are those that do.