“the union has the habit of protecting the people who should be fired, thus keeping dead weight on the payroll.”
You nailed it there, and that my friend is the problem with them. IMO why the big 3 US car manufacturers can’t hang with Toyota, Honda etc.
When you have dead weight you have two choices:
1. Hire more people to do the work the lazy people won’t, thus increasing costs to the consumer.
2. More for retail side, don’t hire more and have customer service suffer as a s result.
Either way the customer looses, causing the company to loose business and eventually lay-off or go under.