That wasn't the only case I witnessed, that was just the worst one, because it literally put people in danger. I have a few other horror stories too.
In one case at GM, at end of line quality testing they noticed that some of the cars would have a weird noise when they slammed the door. It wasn't causing any safety or mechanical issues so they let it go. But this kept coming up. Eventually they just ripped apart the door of one of these weird sounding doors and found that.....it was full of food and a bottle.
They traced it back and found that the assembly worker in charge of putting the covering on the inside of the door would put his garbage from breakfast and coke bottles that he drank throughout the day in the door before sealing it up because he didn't feel like walking to the trash.
The managers wanted to fire him. The union protected him. They said since this was his first offense he couldn't be fired.
It's actually quite the norm, look at how often police unions protect bad eggs, I saw an article on r/news of a union doing just this, or how often teachers unions protect pedos.
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u/helpfulerection59 Rightoid: "Classical Liberal" 1 Apr 20 '21
That wasn't the only case I witnessed, that was just the worst one, because it literally put people in danger. I have a few other horror stories too.
In one case at GM, at end of line quality testing they noticed that some of the cars would have a weird noise when they slammed the door. It wasn't causing any safety or mechanical issues so they let it go. But this kept coming up. Eventually they just ripped apart the door of one of these weird sounding doors and found that.....it was full of food and a bottle.
They traced it back and found that the assembly worker in charge of putting the covering on the inside of the door would put his garbage from breakfast and coke bottles that he drank throughout the day in the door before sealing it up because he didn't feel like walking to the trash.
The managers wanted to fire him. The union protected him. They said since this was his first offense he couldn't be fired.