So the union wants to grow it’s membership at the cost of fewer jobs available for it’s members?
Yep,as long as they get them union dues,they don’t care where they come from.
And drive down the wages of those who are members. Why hire a union carpenter to build a house when you can get a crew of illegals to do the job for 1/3 the wage?
If he were interested in his membership, he would have union officials pointing out both the lack of union and green cards to the contractor when they find a crew of Mexicans roofing for framing a house. Instead he backs the Democrats (and Chamber of Commerce RINOs).
More union members equals more union dues. More money means more power.
We were going to automate a part of the line that was quite dangerous. It would have reduced the number of people working in that area but would have reduced the number of major injuries.
IIRC there were two or three people working there a shift and the number would have gone down to one person on light duty to keep an eye on things.
The union refused to let us do it. It would mean less dues. The fact that it would mean less crush injuries was meaningless.
Finally we managed to reach an agreement where we would wait until the correct number of job reductions was arrived at by attrition rather then layoffs.
That took a couple of years. At the end of that time we installed the new equipment and the number of injuries in that area dropped to zero.
Here was the thing, if they had let us put in the equipment when we wanted to there would have been no layoffs. Corporate was planing to put in another two lines that would have absorbed all the worker plus would have added more.
After reviewing the fight we had to get the new equipment in they decided those lines would go elsewhere.
Congratulations Union! You are not only responsible for all the injuries that occurred during those years but kept us from hiring more union members. Truly the working mans hero.