Your desperate fantasies have nothing to do with reality.
The single laziest human being I ever worked with was long-time UMW member. If he couldn't do it sitting down, he wouldn't do it. And in construction, that's a shitty way to be.
In fairness, one of the best guys I ever worked with was a UMW worker. Always looking for something to do, and did it cheerfully. He was a short-time member, though, and hadn't had the initiative sucked out of him yet. He had some amazing stories of the union.
Unions protect the incompetent and lazy.
Yup. The incompetent and the lazy and they make the same money that the competent and go getter make.
I've worked in two union situations. In fact the last one the Union didn't defend me or my cohorts at all. Why?? Because we were junior on the seniority list and the fellow union members who were after out jobs, which we did quite well by the way, because we were working and they weren't. Seniorty is all. Doesn't matter if you have the intelligence of a box of rocks if your senior its all your way.
The company, James River, spent half a mil training us to do our jobs. We all had bids because it was production work and no senior union member wanted the jobs because you had to work for 8 hours. Fancy that.
All these senior guys were in the labor pool. They go assigned a job in the morning and then spent the rest of the day fucking off in the mill. Hiding in other words because God forbid anyone actually assign em another job.
The company had been telling these guys to take a bid because they were reducing the labor pool. Of course no one took a bid. the labor pool was tit and who in their right mind wants to work for 8 hours?? Anyway. The company vastly reduced the labor pool. The only guys left in it had 20-30 years seniority. Oh Oh. Now what do we do. We have lost our jobs. Of course we complain to the union and guess what. The union member filed a grievance because us little union members were working and they weren't. Yup. The Union sure looked out for us big time. Seniority is all even if the senior members are a bunch of lazy fucks.
The company fought it but knew they were gonna lose in arbitrations so then we had to train our replacements. Believe me. They would have rather kept us because we did the job and got the product out.
Moral of the story? Doesn't matter how well you do your job in a union situtation. If a senior member wants your job. Dont' expect the Union to defend your little ass because they won't. Seniority is all.
I have no use for Unions private or public. They had a place back in the day and now hinder more than they help.
Thanks for your contribution. But let me ask you something. Why do you think they "hinder more than they help?" What was it they used to do that they don't do now?
Unions were a good thing back in the day when the workers had no protection. They now have protections through Fed law.
Unions today protect the lazy, the thief and the unproductive. If your a union member your chances of getting fired for imcompetency is about nil. The go getter who puts out the work is making the same money as the slacker. The company can try to fire the unproductive worker but chances of that happening are slim to none.
I've seen it happen in both union situations I was involved in. They certainily hinder the company from getting its moneys worth from it semployeess.