Jorj, The thing about Paul V and his union organizer friends is that the people they hurt most are the workers. Look at how they killed Detroit. How many jobs went overseas because the unions priced workers out of the market?
I have bargained and counseled on the union side and management side. On the union side, like buying a car, I bargained for the best price I could get. If management/dealer sold the car beneath his cost basis, that's his problem. I was looking out for my self-interest as a customer.
The same applied when I bargained from the union side, against the owner(s) managers of a company. It is up to the management to look out for his corporation and their self-interest, even to the point of taking on a strike. Management has the right and duty to say no!! On the management side of a labor issue I was amazed how management bargained a weak "management right clause," lack of knowledge, lack of ba__s, or just plain stupidity. On the labor side of the table I bargained the maximum that management would give away.
On the management side I played hardball with the unions the same way I bargain while on the union side. No, No, No, was the answer many times. When union members are out on strike for numerous days, missing paychecks and their family suffering, I have found that most generally that both parties want to escape the real or perceived pain, "paid avoidance," and want to come to an agreement. It is a shame that "pain avoidance," in life, motivates individuals out of the psychological comfort zones, and are willing to search out a better way of resolving issues, come to agreement, and begin to come to the reality of using a Win - Win approach of settlement. Whether it is wars, marriage disputes, labor disputes, "pain avoidance," is a great motivating factor. Consequences and outcomes will drive behavior and settlement actions.
I alway put my MBA's labor relation classes (management and labor) in roll play sessions to describe the psychology of management, labor bargaining and management styles. I was amazed how poorly trained in the psychological aspects of management style and labor relation management had received.
This polarization of the electorate in the current election if it continues with a Win - Lose approach, (winner take all) will lead to a melt down of the US economy and the US in general. Just maybe this is what it takes for the political system to get back to a Win - Win approach of settlement. If not, "hardball bargaining," will probably lead to the US destruction as a nation. The choice is ours as to what time of approach we take.
The same approach even surfaces in the judicial system. Ask Kenneth, how the financial expenditure of cost, figures in a sidebar, between lawyers in arriving at a settlement especially in the judges chamber. The wealthy have more $$$$ to outlast poor individuals. This brings to the forefront whether the judicial system that we have is fair or not. But, it is the best that we have!!! |
