Because this never, ever happens with unions
A follow-up to my link to a story about people getting paid $200,000 in over time for a $60,000 job reveals the even worse details that allowed this to happen. According to union rules people were allowed to get paid (overtime) for...sleeping and "covering" for people who were not working due to various reasons.
That's right, if you were "covering" for someone who wasn't working you got paid overtime. If you yourself had already worked a "full" shift you get overtime. After a while you have to go home and sleep so you get paid to do that and whomever "covers" for you gets paid overtime.
Essentially you could rig this setup so that after the first day or two of work everyone is earning overtime for every hour they worked and didn't work which adds up to almost 90 hours a work-week in pay for working as little as 12 actual hours.
Now what was that about CEO pay being "obscene"? At least shareholders get to vote on that!
That's right, if you were "covering" for someone who wasn't working you got paid overtime. If you yourself had already worked a "full" shift you get overtime. After a while you have to go home and sleep so you get paid to do that and whomever "covers" for you gets paid overtime.
Essentially you could rig this setup so that after the first day or two of work everyone is earning overtime for every hour they worked and didn't work which adds up to almost 90 hours a work-week in pay for working as little as 12 actual hours.
Now what was that about CEO pay being "obscene"? At least shareholders get to vote on that!