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Originally Posted by V
The union will never punish the best, but the framework will. Anyone that produces too many widgets is bound to make his brothers look bad, and that gets shut down pretty quickly by said brothers. You work to the lowest common denominator or you're ostracized. I've worked with 5 different unions in Alberta. Based on what I've heard, Alberta can't touch BC when it comes to militant poorly functioning unions.
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I think you're trying to pass your perceptions as facts. Could someone be influenced by his coworkers for being a "brown noser" or making everyone else look lazy? Yup it can happen, and does, in both union and non union workplaces. And I've never seen anyone fired for being over productive but I have seen a number of disciplines and terminations for disruption of the workforce for the example you gave. If an employee wants to do more, all the power too him, a lot of contracts have incentives in place promoting such cases. If someone is slowing down because he's worried what others might think, he should take a second and ask himself what he thinks and stop worrying about others, since he isn't doing anything against his contract or that violates union rules.
Edit: and Alberta can't touch a lot of provinces on a lot of things, employee rights, health care systems, economic stability...