On 17/02/2018 10:41, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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pamela wrote:
On 18:20 16 Feb 2018, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
dennis@home wrote:
I refused to join "the union", I didn't want them to have sole
negotiating rights over *my* terms and conditions.

Ah - right. Not many large companies would be willing to negotiate
new terms with every single employee on perhaps an annual basis.

That's exactly how it works in most companies I have been in. I take it
your experience is different. It was the lack of individualised
assessments which made me leave the public sector.

In a large company, it's going to make the HR department even larger.
Adding to non productive overheads. And opening up the much bigger
possibility of favouritism, etc.

Why would it be the HR department?
Its the line managers that know what a person can do and is doing.
The HR department only has to check procedures are being done as
required and the law is being complied with.


And I can imagine you jumping up and down if you discovered
someone doing the same job was better paid than you...

That was an almost inevitable consequence of individual pay. In some
cases people doing a better job would be paid less than someone else
doing a worse job. It depended on what salary you initially
negoatiated and how important it was to retain that person.

You think a large organisation is going to negotiate the starting salary
of everyone individually too? Even the bog cleaners?

No, but do you expect the union to negotiate every individuals salary?

There is a big difference between skilled staff and semi skilled staff
like cleaner, sound technicians, train drivers, car assembly workers,
etc. Once you have worked as a skilled worker come back and let us know.


No reason not to reward someone who is exceptional at a job individually.
But to have individual saleries for everyone would be a nightmare.

You seems to be very jealous of what some earn in jobs you can't possibly
know. I wonder why?


You seem to think every worker is the same and should be treated the
same as the worst one. This results in no incentive to do a good job and
standards fall and the company goes bust.
If you pay the minimum (legal or the union rate) to everyone the good
employees will leave and get jobs elsewhere and you are left with the
dross. At this point you may as well give up and invest you money
somewhere else rather than the company as you aren't going to get
anything back.