Moving from worker to management is just what I’m talking about, and leaving the union behind is no big deal. I’ve done it before, and no one firebombed me. Most of the union guys want to be left alone to go home and do their own thing. Very few true believers in their midst.
Roger that. I did the same. Lucky for me I still had the respect of the workers because I treated them like adults and pretty much laid it on the line. I was pre-”lyin’ king” by telling them “If you like your job, you can keep your job”. “If you don’t feel like doing your job, I will document your actions as required and you won’t have one.” Never had a grievance filed against me because everybody knew where they stood. As the years passed, I moved in to engineering and had to interface with the union guys less and less. As the contract for what we were doing came nearer to ending, the folks got angrier and angrier. It was weird to watch the transition.