BBLISA: Re: Overqualified?!?!

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

While this is true, much depends on both the company, the union and the 
conditions upon which the union was brought in.  
There are many good things about a union as well as bad. When the union 
members, the union leadership and the company management can work together 
intelligently, then things work out. The real sticky issues come when there 
are jurisdictional issues. 
Back to my programmer/system admin analogy. The admin union might complain 
that the programmers are doing jobs that are traditional to admins. 

On 19 Jul 2002 at 12:20, Arthur Gaer wrote:

> Restrictive work rules are not inherent in collective bargaining and
> unionization.  Look at university faculty unions for example: noone tells
> a psychology professor that she can't start researching history, or
> writing papers on philosophy, or performing statistics in front of an
> entire class.  They don't even tell her she can't open up her computer,
> swap the hard drive out, load on RedHat 7.3 and configure her sendmail to
> be an open relay.  
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