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<blockquote data-quote="WTJ" data-source="post: 1984263" data-attributes="member: 6661"><p>The MegaMarts and like businesses operate with a very low-skilled workforce and do not become overly concerned about recruiting and retention. Operations requiring skilled personnel DO struggle with these issues, as terminating an employee is a lost investment. However, some people will not help themselves. If some unions had more of a craft guild approach, and focused as much as keeping their employer sustainable as they do on numbers and their own greed the issues would diminish. The same greed issues applies to some businesses.</p><p></p><p>The Sandy issue notwithstanding, you rarely hear much negative reporting about most unions representing a technical craft. It's the unions that try to collect everyone under a contract that create the most backlash. The IAM tried, for example, to lump unskilled workers in with highly skilled workers in some contracts. The result was unequal compensation for the skilled workers. In this case, while it may have financially benefited the IAM, it did not benefit those who applied themselves to learning a skill. The Union greed and collectivist approach resulted in the IAM being voted out of representation of some trades. The lesson: Just because the name states a particular skill does not mean that it represents that skilled craft in an equitable manner.</p><p></p><p>If some businesses were smart enough to learn to listen to employees and apply them the unions would lose their appeal. However, a MegaMart business model does not care, as there are plenty of warm bodies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WTJ, post: 1984263, member: 6661"] The MegaMarts and like businesses operate with a very low-skilled workforce and do not become overly concerned about recruiting and retention. Operations requiring skilled personnel DO struggle with these issues, as terminating an employee is a lost investment. However, some people will not help themselves. If some unions had more of a craft guild approach, and focused as much as keeping their employer sustainable as they do on numbers and their own greed the issues would diminish. The same greed issues applies to some businesses. The Sandy issue notwithstanding, you rarely hear much negative reporting about most unions representing a technical craft. It's the unions that try to collect everyone under a contract that create the most backlash. The IAM tried, for example, to lump unskilled workers in with highly skilled workers in some contracts. The result was unequal compensation for the skilled workers. In this case, while it may have financially benefited the IAM, it did not benefit those who applied themselves to learning a skill. The Union greed and collectivist approach resulted in the IAM being voted out of representation of some trades. The lesson: Just because the name states a particular skill does not mean that it represents that skilled craft in an equitable manner. If some businesses were smart enough to learn to listen to employees and apply them the unions would lose their appeal. However, a MegaMart business model does not care, as there are plenty of warm bodies. [/QUOTE]
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