Comments on: GG SEIU & UAW http://www.flockofcats.com/yulzopolis/business-and-finance/gg-seiu-uaw/ Politics, Video Games, Japan, Random Stuff, Etc Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:11:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Ashley http://www.flockofcats.com/yulzopolis/business-and-finance/gg-seiu-uaw/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Ashley Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:17:51 +0000 http://www.flockofcats.com/?p=226#comment-41 Unions are a strange thing. My experience here in Cali has been that union negotiations tend to hinder common sense management decisions. It took me 2 weeks and asking 6 people to figure out if I could earn comp time to be used at a later date, which I can do according to California law, but not according to my union contract. It was all very frustrating. In Texas, it was more straight forward. I was told that the unions used to be more powerful when they were a single State Workers Union, but apparently they started splitting off in the 80's into smaller, more specific unions. Apparently the Teachers were the first to go. Now the University deals with many unions and they have little or no power to negotiate. Unions are a strange thing. My experience here in Cali has been that union negotiations tend to hinder common sense management decisions. It took me 2 weeks and asking 6 people to figure out if I could earn comp time to be used at a later date, which I can do according to California law, but not according to my union contract. It was all very frustrating. In Texas, it was more straight forward.

I was told that the unions used to be more powerful when they were a single State Workers Union, but apparently they started splitting off in the 80’s into smaller, more specific unions. Apparently the Teachers were the first to go. Now the University deals with many unions and they have little or no power to negotiate.

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