2006-07-02 17:48:53 · 15 answers · asked by SMRTASS 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
To what I have seen and experienced, they may not be lazier but they typically want to stretch the rules and most of the times abuse it where they know they can get away with it...which tend to allow them not to be as productive as they can be..case in point..the airline industry...
2006-07-02 18:24:03 · answer #1 · answered by JARROYO29 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, theyre not. But the bad employees who are union members will go crying to the union more and depend on them more for protection. A lazy employee is a lazy employee. I've found the best employees are the best union members and the bad employees are a drain on their local as well. The advantage the union has over the company though is it can go behind closed doors with the troublemakers and really give them a clear view of how crappy they are and help them straighten up and fly right. If it doesnt happen, in time, the employee can get canned anyway.
2006-07-03 01:20:03 · answer #2 · answered by Pepe LePeu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd be willing to bet real money that anyone who answers this question by saying that, yes, Union workers are lazier than non-union workers has never been in a Union. It might be that Union workers fight for things like workplace protection standards and overtime wages that causes this type of mischaracterization.
In any case, Unions provide a collective benefit to those who join them in the form of bargaining power both in the workplace and for benefits like insurance.
2006-07-03 00:58:19 · answer #3 · answered by cc smith 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've been both a union worker and a non-union worker and I'd have to say no, union workers are not necessarily lazier. Both groups have lazy people in them and everyone else has to pick up the slack.
2006-07-03 00:51:53 · answer #4 · answered by ixiiprincess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DEFINITELY! I work two jobs, one unionized and one not. I cannot stand my unionized job because my coworkers are the laziest bunch of idiots I've ever met in my life. Worse, it's a government union. I remember once we had a long line of customers waiting for service (more than fifty people), and ALL of my coworkers (including the supervisor) left the front desk to play with the new label makers. They proceded to label pencils, pens, staplers, and glue sticks while I served all the customers. Unions tend to promote based on seniority, not performance, so there is no incentive to do the job well.
2006-07-03 04:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by Jetgirly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! The union doesn't have a monopoly on lazy workers. Union workers have contracts which make them much harder to fire, change health care, retirement and other benefit packages costing the companies more per/ employee (legacy cost). The real question is should one be paid more for merit or seniority in a competitive world economy?
2006-07-03 01:14:33 · answer #6 · answered by beae314159 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha, no because they always have to go to union meeting and are always having problems with the corporation they work for (corporations hate unions so they give union workers a hard time).
2006-07-03 00:52:04 · answer #7 · answered by mr monkeeman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course the PC answer is that you can't characterize an entire group like that...but in reality yes they are. I have seen it first hand...when it's break time, or end of shift--->they disapear in a matter of seconds. But they're slow as hell getting to the job.
2006-07-03 00:52:36 · answer #8 · answered by bob f 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try telling that to a coal miner or the Teamster's union! I double-dog dare you.
2006-07-03 00:50:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think if you're lazy you're just lazy that's it and that's all it has nothing to do with being in a union or not it doesn't matter.
2006-07-03 00:53:40 · answer #10 · answered by LaTanya B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋