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I never understood the bickering from management about unions in the last 20 years. Unions have become so weak that they have no recourse except strike which is as much in the disinterest to the union as it is the company. Plus, if the company has a good negotiator, they can shift a ton of the employee benefit burden onto the union and off the liability side of the corporate balance sheet. On top of that, benefit expenses can be decreased the same way which can offset any potential in higher wages. Finally, management has a rule book to follow which reduces the accusations from workers if supervisors play their cards correctly. Seriously, union workers have no clue how easy they make work on management.
 
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I never understood the bickering from management about unions in the last 20 years. Unions have become so weak that they have no recourse except strike which is as much in the disinterest to the union as it is the company. Plus, if the company has a good negotiator, they can shift a ton of the employee benefit burden onto the union and off the liability side of the corporate balance sheet. On top of that, benefit expenses can be decreased the same way which can offset any potential in higher wages. Finally, management has a rule book to follow which reduces the accusations from workers if supervisors play their cards correctly. Seriously, union workers have no clue how easy they make work on management.
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That is a simplistic and one sided view. Unions are a business and don't give things away. In our cases, there is power in numbers and that would be something our management would have difficulty coping with versus abusing employees as is the current state.
 
anonymous said:
That is a simplistic and one sided view. Unions are a business and don't give things away. In our cases, there is power in numbers and that would be something our management would have difficulty coping with versus abusing employees as is the current state.
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The view is not as simplistic as you think because (except for a handful of beancounters that stare at the financial statements each month) management refuses to accept the potential savings to shareholders for fear that a socialist element is trying to overtake their capitalist enterprise. In fact, the view I gave should be used by management to improve the welfare of their employees while partnering with an organization that can support the corporation by providing critical training to employees in key fields and improving the quality of the workers available for positions. Yet, management sees this as a suck and a drain on the corporate ecosystem. I am not bashing the unions. In fact, I think they are good for all employees as well as the company esp. in the current trend of politically correct stupidity that is spewed in the media. But management is not willing to take advantage of this relationship to build a better organization that provides value to the shareholders.

One more thing (as proven by GM, Ford, Carrier, etc), the concept of the union having true power in the modern era of "no borders" globalism is a joke. If the union throws a tantrum, then the company can lift and shift to anywhere and even create a subsidiary which allows for a change of employer ID numbers forcing out organized labor in a quick, swift motion. And in the age of Trump being the media distraction of the millennium, no body in the United States would no of the unfair treatment of the union by the corporation.
 
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The view is not aus simplistic as you think because (except for a handful of beancounters that stare at the financial statements each month) management refuses to accept the potential savings to shareholders for fear that a socialist element is trying to overtake their capitalist enterprise. In fact, the view I gave should be used by management to improve the welfare of their employees while partnering with an organization that can support the corporation by providing critical training to employees in key fields and improving the quality of the workers available for positions. Yet, management sees this as a suck and a drain on the corporate ecosystem. I am not bashing the unions. In fact, I think they are good for all employees as well as the company esp. in the current trend of politically correct stupidity that is spewed in the media. But management is not willing to take advantage of this relationship to build a better organization that provides value to the shareholders.

One more thing (as proven by GM, Ford, Carrier, etc), the concept of the union having true power in the modern era of "no borders" globalism is a joke. If the union throws a tantrum, then the company can lift and shift to anywhere and even create a subsidiary which allows for a change of employer ID numbers forcing out organized labor in a quick, swift motion. And in the age of Trump being the media distraction of the millennium, no body in the United States would no of the unfair treatment of the union by the corporation.
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Please. You have to be living in your head. Or trolling. What idiot would advocate for his own exploitation. This is not GM, It's Labcorp. It stays alive by gobbling up it's competition and is now attempting to diversify. It doesn't need to move to a foreign country because guess who is managing it's labs? They brought with them certain cultural particulars tha include their corrupt ways, like wage theft, and turning what used to be an honorable profession into sweat shops, hiring only green cards because green cards do not speak, let alone fight back, no matter how badl the exploitation. After all, it could be worsse. They could be deported back home. That thought makes the abuse tolerable if they even recognize they are being abused. Meanwhile, the few American born citizens who still have jobs have no nagotiating power because no one will listen to or speak up for them. Who clan expect the timid little supervisor to speak up when she is just a total lackey tool. It never ceases to amaze me why it is the weak opportunistic self centered tools who want to be the leader. To put it succinctly, LabCorb doesn't need cross the borders for cheap docile Labor, because Labcorp brought the 3rd world here.

That is why we need to unionize. There is power in numbers and we need professional negotiators. It is as simple as that. Not brain surgery.
 
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Please. You have to be living in your head. Or trolling. What idiot would advocate for his own exploitation. This is not GM, It's Labcorp. It stays alive by gobbling up it's competition and is now attempting to diversify. It doesn't need to move to a foreign country because guess who is managing it's labs? They brought with them certain cultural particulars tha include their corrupt ways, like wage theft, and turning what used to be an honorable profession into sweat shops, hiring only green cards because green cards do not speak, let alone fight back, no matter how badl the exploitation. After all, it could be worsse. They could be deported back home. That thought makes the abuse tolerable if they even recognize they are being abused. Meanwhile, the few American born citizens who still have jobs have no nagotiating power because no one will listen to or speak up for them. Who clan expect the timid little supervisor to speak up when she is just a total lackey tool. It never ceases to amaze me why it is the weak opportunistic self centered tools who want to be the leader. To put it succinctly, LabCorb doesn't need cross the borders for cheap docile Labor, because Labcorp brought the 3rd world here.

That is why we need to unionize. There is power in numbers and we need professional negotiators. It is as simple as that. Not brain surgery.
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anonymous said:
Please. You have to be living in your head. Or trolling. What idiot would advocate for his own exploitation. This is not GM, It's Labcorp. It stays alive by gobbling up it's competition and is now attempting to diversify. It doesn't need to move to a foreign country because guess who is managing it's labs? They brought with them certain cultural particulars tha include their corrupt ways, like wage theft, and turning what used to be an honorable profession into sweat shops, hiring only green cards because green cards do not speak, let alone fight back, no matter how badl the exploitation. After all, it could be worsse. They could be deported back home. That thought makes the abuse tolerable if they even recognize they are being abused. Meanwhile, the few American born citizens who still have jobs have no nagotiating power because no one will listen to or speak up for them. Who clan expect the timid little supervisor to speak up when she is just a total lackey tool. It never ceases to amaze me why it is the weak opportunistic self centered tools who want to be the leader. To put it succinctly, LabCorb doesn't need cross the borders for cheap docile Labor, because Labcorp brought the 3rd world here.

That is why we need to unionize. There is power in numbers and we need professional negotiators. It is as simple as that. Not brain surgery.
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I thought it was just So. California that was putting up with this crap. Is this stuff going on in other labs too? Explain how you make people come in on the weekend after a 40 hour week and not pay overtime. And instead of hiring additional help or creating a list of 'on call', per diem employees, they increase the workload of the cytotech,who have not quit working there, by 25%, without even mentioning an increase in pay. When it is time for your yearly employee review for a raise, your so-called supervisor insults your intelligence by playing a silly game. I will talk about that in a later post. To make a short story shorter, you were not given the raise that you deserved Even after being rated "above expectations." I have dealt with some sleezy people, but this takes the cake. Don't give me a chocolate cookie and pat me on the head and say good job. This is a business, not a charity. We want to be treated with respect and properly paid.

In meetings, you dare not question the craziness.. Going to work there is like stepping into the "The Twilight Zone". Is this how employees are treated in India or Korea. Damn, I am an American accustom to standing up for our rights. My dad fought in the Koran War. My cousin grew up without a dad, because he was killed in the Korean War. What the hell were they fighting for?

Bring on the union. I am ready for the vote.
 
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you can't. It will never happen.
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News flash:
Another cytotech bit yeh dust, and one of the best. When our lab was acquired by Labcorp, we were told how much better it would be for us. There would be no problem with personal time off because labs within the network cooperated with one another. No significant backlog was possible because excess workload would be sent to anther lab in the network.

NOT!!!. Instead of cooperating, the Los Angeles management competed with the other labs, creating self induced stress on the unit. Little Kim refused to approve personal time off for overworked cytotecs. The workload was increased without a corresponding increase in pay. Long term techs, afraid it would get worse, quit for for fear of losing the opportunity to flee. Instead of hiring, they pressured techs to work weekends for premium pay. They care not about humans. Only care about how they impress San Diego and feeding their ambitions. How on earth is a

Someone, please tell these Yahoo!'s that premium time is paid is a shift differential. It is another overtime. Overtime is 1.5 for the sixth day of work and double time for the seventh. California state employment law. This also applies to supervisors.

So here we go again. Three cytotechs quit. Out of the need to outshine rather than cooperate, the workload was increased again without an increase in pay. For the second year in a row, the yearly raise was given before the employee review. When the amount of the raise is below that corresponding to the employee rating and below the increase in the cost of living, there is a problem. Especially, while LabCorp is leveraging hundreds of millions to purchase other businesses. I am embarrassed for the behavior of the tool supervisor, who, if she ever had any principles, sold them for crumbs off her bosses table.

And Corporate, don't ask the these narcissistic sociopaths if they did what you know they did. They are professional liars and they did it , know how to fake it, and will surely fiugure a way to place the blame elsewhere. They don't care who they throw under the bus. What next, another daily workload increase with no time off?

Where is the union rep? I am ready to sign up.
 


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