17th February 2010, 08:54 PM
At the risk of putting my head on the block I agree entirely with what you're saying GnomeKing, there do seem to be cases where union representation has NOT led to satisfactory conclusions for the Redundant Craftsman - I've heard of grievances which weren't resolved happily - and the aggrieved asking what happened - and that has made me suspicious, what exactly happened there? I remain a union member nevertheless, because I think that in general the spirit of cooperation can't be turned into yet another management tool, if that's what you're getting at. The two aren't necessarily at odds, but in general unions are on the side of cooperation, management's on the side of competition. Difficult to square that circle, unless you can remove the spirit of cooperation entirely from the human species....though pretty sure there are people about who'd prefer to have person-units working for them, rather than people. Bring on ze robots! Enough.