Why does Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty (Right) still have a job?
By union rules, the engineers couldn't so much as touch a meter or scope probe to a piece of equipment - they had to get a union tech connect them. Once the probe was connected, though, the engineers were allowed to look at the display. :=) When a suspected bad circuit card needed to be replaced, that could only be done by a tech, not the engineer.
“That sounds very similar to the situation I saw while teaching an in-house course at Teletype Corporation”
Yep, that is just how they work.
No wonder the USSA is sinking like the Titanic, but the union crap has been going on for a long time.
My uncle had a plastics molding company on Long Island, NY.
The union started picketing him.
My uncle was small but wiry and would not take anything
off of anyone.
He walked up to this big union picket guy who was in a sharkskin suit.
My uncle grabbed his hand, looked at the palm, and said...
You G.. D... s.. of a b...., you have never done a days work in your life. You get the H... out of here or I will beat the s... out of you.
Well, uncle sold out and moved to a mountain top in Arkansas
to raise Santa Gertruda cattle.