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<blockquote data-quote="PobreCarlos" data-source="post: 623202" data-attributes="member: 16651"><p>purplesky;</p><p> </p><p>"Bonus", based on standard industrial production measurement, was acknowledged and approved by the union decades ago. To say that the membership "wouldn't approve it" is like locking the barn door after the livestock left at this point in time; i.e. - it's a case of attempting to ignore history and reality. And to say that production terminations don't exist is to ignore reality as well; to my direct knowledge, there have been terminations based on "production" here and there at least since the implementation of elemental time studies in the mid-to-late 1970's. Granted, the Teamsters don't advertise the fact...but since when have the Teamsters been forthright about anything that might put their bureaucracy in a harsh light?</p><p> </p><p>Perhaps people need to be disabused of this idea that, simply because it's "not in the contract'", the company can't do it. Fact is, unless it's specifically prohibited in the "contract", the company can manage it's operations in any fashion it wants.</p><p> </p><p>Lot of Teamsters don't like to come to terms with that concept. Not sure why, since even the briefest view of the union's history would demonstrate that union involvement in the business operations of it's members employers is detrimental to their job security; in the unions core industry alone, there are well more than a million Teamsters who lost their jobs on that basis who could attest to its validity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PobreCarlos, post: 623202, member: 16651"] purplesky; "Bonus", based on standard industrial production measurement, was acknowledged and approved by the union decades ago. To say that the membership "wouldn't approve it" is like locking the barn door after the livestock left at this point in time; i.e. - it's a case of attempting to ignore history and reality. And to say that production terminations don't exist is to ignore reality as well; to my direct knowledge, there have been terminations based on "production" here and there at least since the implementation of elemental time studies in the mid-to-late 1970's. Granted, the Teamsters don't advertise the fact...but since when have the Teamsters been forthright about anything that might put their bureaucracy in a harsh light? Perhaps people need to be disabused of this idea that, simply because it's "not in the contract'", the company can't do it. Fact is, unless it's specifically prohibited in the "contract", the company can manage it's operations in any fashion it wants. Lot of Teamsters don't like to come to terms with that concept. Not sure why, since even the briefest view of the union's history would demonstrate that union involvement in the business operations of it's members employers is detrimental to their job security; in the unions core industry alone, there are well more than a million Teamsters who lost their jobs on that basis who could attest to its validity. [/QUOTE]
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