What do you think of the "job banks?" In case you don't know, that is where a union member goes when he is no longer needed on a particular job. The company still pays him 85% - 95% of his pay while he does nothing. If he is offered another job he doesn't have to take it and can remain in the job bank, meaning idle, as long as he wants while still being paid.
Regulations? What about affirmative action, minority set asides, can't fire a person without going through a detailed, painstaking process of building a paper trail of violations and short comings, a 'hostile work environment", sexual harassment, and all the other nonsense HR requirements? What about having to evacuate and destroy minor fume emissions from printing inks, having to capture and evacuate minor ozone emissions?
There are many, many more and we haven't even gotten to corporate taxes.
parsy, who thinks greed and a poor national policy are to blame
When you make money or earn a bonus it is only fair; when someone else does it is greed.
Like I said, unions do stupid things sometimes. I am not for getting paid to sit there idle. If the type of work has minor time offs from time to time that is one thing, but overall, the union risks the company up and moving to the South if it is too often and too costly.
As far as the HR stuff I have seen companies do bad things to workers and usually get away with it. Unless a protected class, most hiring is at will and most courts are dead set against getting involved. Courts even throw out good cases.
I still think wage differentials are main reason jobs leave. If “crap and played” passes, then you will see an exodus like you never seen.
parsy, who thinks it will not pass