Union YES or Union No...
Panaceas for all problems, unions aren''t. And some are better than others. But given US as my employer, I know I''m better off unionized than not. Perhaps not much better off, but better.
And as for the argument that unions protect those who would otherwise be fired, I''m not so sure that true, at least in my stations where I''ve been 15 years. We''ve many who don''t pull their weight, don''t know how to do their jobs, etc. But this was true before being unionized and nothing happened then either!
Mgmt. has never had a clue who performs well and who doesn''t. They may think they do, but not from my intimate perspecitive, or the passenger''s, working side-by-side, hour and after hour. Mgmt and PSS''s, don''t know how to do my job, and get "it" merely on a theoretical level,or with attendance records, etc. Evaluating performance, as passengers see thigns or fellow coworkers is a foreign concept. Who knows their job, who''s helpful, accurate, or efficient? They haven''t a clue!
If the plane leaves on time, all''s well.
Funny, many comment here about various political and economic systems, state-owned vs. private. And I''m often amazed with how US Airways can resemble the stereotypical government agency; with the same inefficiencies, same bad decisions, poor information flow and more than a few who been around for ages yet never should have made it past probation (when there wan''t a union)!
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