http://www.eastbayconservative.com/2009/05/28/barts-union-negotiation-website/ Words from a Non-Leftist Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:54:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.eastbayconservative.com/2009/05/28/barts-union-negotiation-website/comment-page-1/#comment-2396 mark ross Fri, 29 May 2009 23:08:26 +0000 http://www.eastbayconservative.com/2009/05/28/barts-union-negotiation-website/#comment-2396 The common myth about unions is that they're responsible for the increase in standard of living of working people. The inexorable advancement of technology has continually increased worker productivity... increasing the amount of wealth produced by an hour's labor. It has also drastically improved the safety of the work environment. Public employee unions, as in the case of BART, exist without any competitive forces that would otherwise keep their economically harmful tendencies in check. Beyond setting worker pay, unions tend to take over management... implementing policies that further reduce economic viability. Cross training is strickly forbidden... and compells employers to maintain artificially high staffing levels... a.k.a. featherbedding. Other than this, they're just wonderful organizations... unless they know where you live. The common myth about unions is that they’re responsible for the increase in standard of living of working people. The inexorable advancement of technology has continually increased worker productivity… increasing the amount of wealth produced by an hour’s labor. It has also drastically improved the safety of the work environment.
Public employee unions, as in the case of BART, exist without any competitive forces that would otherwise keep their economically harmful tendencies in check.
Beyond setting worker pay, unions tend to take over management… implementing policies that further reduce economic viability. Cross training is strickly forbidden… and compells employers to maintain artificially high staffing levels… a.k.a. featherbedding.
Other than this, they’re just wonderful organizations… unless they know where you live.

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