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Sad Faces in the Unions Today
On 2/23/14, 8:38 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/23/2014 7:57 AM, F*O*A*D wrote: On 2/23/14, 1:17 AM, wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:53:02 -0500, "Earl! " . wrote: F*O*A*D wrote: The state's politicians poisoned the well with direct and indirect threats to jobs. Cite? It is another stretch of the facts from Harry. What the state said is they *might* rethink FUTURE tax incentives for NEW plants. It had nothing to do with current employees. Uh-huh, sure, Gregg. Right. Of course. And Senator Corker didn't play a role at the end, either, and the workers weren't left with the impression that if they voted union the state might play fun and games with their employer. Well, we shall see what happens. Corker said if the workers voted no, VW would be building another plant in their state then...he reneged on that statement after the vote, and that had nothing to do with the vote, either. Luckily, VW's workers in Germany will have something to say about future plants in the United States. I had two business associates who were executives in a major German engineering and manufacturing company. Both left Germany and relocated to the US. One joined and later started a similar company here. The other joined my company. Why? Because the German style of management/employee co-running the business drove them nuts. I had a very democratic philosophy in the running of the business I had but soon realized that there were limits to how much control employees should have in decision making. It's not that the corporation's goals were at odds with the employee's ... it's simply a case where the employees typically were looking at issues from a personal point of view rather than a more global view required to successfully manage and run a company. We all have jobs to do, all are important but people are better at some things than others. We had a very knowledgeable thin films engineer on our staff. We would meet with a prospective customer who also had thin film engineers who typically wrote the technical specifications and requirements for a system they wanted us to design and build. In several cases, our "expert" would start challenging the customer's approach because he didn't agree with it, promoting *his* way of doing it. This happened two or three times, resulting in customers becoming uneasy with awarding a contract to us. To me, it's ok to offer alternative ways of doing things if you think they will benefit the customer, but not to the point where you are actually insulting them or causing them to think their system will not receive our best efforts. He didn't last long in my democracy. He ended up starting his own company that fell flat on it's face in a short period of time. Perhaps part of the fault with much corporate management these days is in thinking that capital is many times superior to labor. To me, capital and labor should be on the same step. Capital is not more valuable than labor. I'm not advocating workplace democracy...someone has to be in charge...but I am advocating treating everyone and everything involved as valuable assets. |
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