I’ve been thinking about trying to pull together a union at my workplace for a while, but too many coworkers trying to get into fights or rat each other out to management, so screw Unioning that. If nothing else I don’t have the emotional stability to try to unionize my workplace.
While I was brooding at home after work (ruining the rest of my day) I realize that this whole thing is a really optimal scenario for the boss. In fact if I was a boss, I’d specifically try to hire aggressive-ish employees.
What do socialist countries do about this? It’s not like they lock up all their aggressive coworkers the way America tries to. In America we lock up a lot of people but then they’re still lots of aggressive people.
Any boss who’s actually smart should see this as a less optimal scenario. Sure, in the short term you might be able to take a divide-and-conqueror approach to your employees. But in the long term, it poisons the workplace and makes you use loose good employees. My workplace is unionized and the leadership has proven themselves to me to be committed to creating a genuinely pleasant work environment. People stay there for a long, long time. I’ve been there for seven years and I’m on the lower end of the scale, whereas at many other IT departments that would be high. That is beneficial to the organization because loosing an employee means loosing institutional knowledge and training up a new hire.
If it’s a ‘high skilled’ job then yours makes sense, but in ‘low skill’ jobs pretty sure they don’t care much about new training since training is like 1 hour
Unfortunately, that’s all too true. All the more reasons that labor unions are an indispensable part of a healthy society. That said, people still work best in a workplace that isn’t a toxic hell hole.