Unions insist on safety and training for their workers. If a manager tells a worker do something that is illegal or unsafe, the worker can grieve the manager and submit a formal complaint. Try this is an on-union shop to see what happens.
Admittedly there are lots of bad workers but there are also plenty of bad managers. The Deepwater disaster happened because management wanted to save three days of work at the expense of installing a cutoff valve.
If the Deepwater Horizon workers had been in a union with a strong safety standard written into their contract the Gulf oil spill disaster may never have happened. Dean Corgey, Vice-President of the Gulf Coast’s Seafarers International Union, told Chicago’s Labor Express radio that union safety provisions would have given the workers the power to refuse to work in unsafe conditions.
Corgey: “If the workers on the Deep Water Horizon had the ability to have that type of job protection and to be able if they were terminated for voicing there concerns that they would be able to rely on a grievance and arbitration procedure to protect them, I think those folks might be alive today and we might not have all that oil floatin' around out in the Gulf of Mexico."
Corgey says when Gulf workers are approached individually they often express desires to be in a union, but there’s strong employer hostility to unions throughout the region.
Corgey: “There's a culture of anti-unionism among the employees - and when I'm talking employers it's not just the oil companies, it's primarily the oil services which most of the workers work for. And there's a culture of anti-unionism out there that to be frank is disturbing, and we feel un-American."
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