Re:The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes a...
by Symmetry on Sunday March 22, 2015 @05:05PM
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If you formed a union at your workplace, you and your colleagues would get to decide the rules like that.
This is theoretically true for a lot of things such as pay by seniority but it isn't true for everything. In the bad old days some people used union requirements as a way of keeping minorities out of certain industries. Laws were passed to fix this, but those same laws sometimes mean that if your coworker is incompetent then even if management and most union members want them gone then the union is still obligated to fight to let your coworker keep their job.
It can be hard to talk about unions in general when unions in the US and Sweden and Japan end up working so differently.
This is theoretically true for a lot of things such as pay by seniority but it isn't true for everything. In the bad old days some people used union requirements as a way of keeping minorities out of certain industries. Laws were passed to fix this, but those same laws sometimes mean that if your coworker is incompetent then even if management and most union members want them gone then the union is still obligated to fight to let your coworker keep their job.
It can be hard to talk about unions in general when unions in the US and Sweden and Japan end up working so differently.