That is not what I meant by 'effecient'. I think you might be referring to
"effective"???

What I meant was it will free up management to do other functions, as not as
much of their time will be tied to indivual salary negotiations.

By allowing management to individually negotiate salaries, that opens up the
possibilities of abuse, one of the reasons for the formation of the unions
in the first place. How much better it will be for all concerned if there
was an agreed to and established wage package for new employees, and what
raises, if any, they will get after 1 year of service, etc.

Of course, for this to work, other management tools must be implemented,
such as quotas, testing, etc, to make sure that the work that is being payed
for is getting done.

Hey, if you want to see something funny, go to your local gov't building,
such as your county gov't building. Watch what happens at 5:00. There is a
regular stampede of the gov't workers trying to get out the door, complete
with their briefcases packed and their coats on. So I figure they start
getting ready to leave at 4:45 by putting on thier coats and packing their
briefcases, etc, and by extenstion that probably means that they stop work
at 4:30 or so. Certainly once 4:15 rolls around they can't start a new
project because they will be leaving soon. So each worker wastes that last
hour of the day preparing to leave.

What ever happened to: You get paid to WORK until 5. Then you stop. Then
you leave?

Of course, I have not worked a whimpy 40 hour week since I was 18.

L

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:31:46 GMT, "Lonny Bruce"
said:

Collective bargaining should be allowed. It is more effecient for
management, and it assures all workers of getting a somewhat equal and
fair
shake.

As to efficiency, I find that a fairly weak argument. Seems to me it would
be more efficient for management to be able to pay its harder working and
more productive workers more than the guy who starts putting on his coat
at
4:45.