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Originally Posted by IROC
One thing I've never understood is why do union workers think they deserve "job security"? Everyone else in this world earns their job security through performance. Why do unions attempt get "job security" guaranteed as a contract issue?
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Many of our most sophisticated manufacturing processes have been developed by our union employees. Not our engineers. This may be unique to Boeing, but the real rub starts when those processes, that gave our union employees a competetive advantage in performing that particular work, are given free gratis along with that work to some one else. Some one who never could have, never would have, refined the manufacturing process to that level. They get the work because they can do it in the manner they are taught; in the manner developed by those whom the company has taken it away from.
We have been doing this long enough now to make some statements about how this works. Essentially, all further advancement on that particular part, process, or product simply stops when it has been off loaded in this manner. It is far different than when some one comes to Boeing with a better mousetrap that they have developed themselves; those tend to continue to improve and evolve. Our union guys have no qualms competing against such. They know they can keep up with, or beat, most places that come knocking with their wares. It's when their very own ideas are used against them - by offloading them to the lowest bidder - that they get their dander up. I can't blame them.