Unions coming into a workplace is all on management? How does one explain the UAW trying to get its hooks into the Tennessee VW plant?
I’m not a particular fan of unions. I belong to one — involuntarily — because it’s a condition of my employment.
One way unions get a foothold is when company management is bad and as a result workers are unhappy. Wal-Mart employees are generally satisfied with their wages and working conditions — that’s why organizers can’t enough votes to unionize Wal-Mart.
These airport managers have totally abrogated their management responsibilities — first and foremost, they won’t even ACKNOWLEDGE that their employees work for THEM, not an “outside contractor.” So whom do you ask for a raise? “Oh, not the airport. You don’t work for the airport, Mr. Baggage Handler. You work for Acme Baggage Handling. Talk to them.” Seriously?
They outsource their management responsibilities to Acme because they don’t want to deal with staffing headaches. Well, that’s bad management. Now they get to deal with a union, which is way worse than if they had just cut out the “independent contractor” shennanigans.
In TN, the system worked. The workers were satisfied and told the union to get lost.