“People agree and disagree and disagreement is the sign of a strong organization. There are many times when my recommendations have not been implemented.” That is the New York Yankees there is no question it is a strong organization. Unfortunately in TWU Local 100 under president John Samuelsen, the behavior of kicking people out due to disagreement is a sign of weak organization. We understand that president John Samuelsen won the election, thus he can govern in any form he prefers without a question regardless if it is weakening TWU Local 100, however this is not acceptable.
Last Year 2010 Kevin Harrington with Steve Downs wanted to settle old score by trying to kick out Ms. Terry Adams. First they removed her name, then they closed her email account after they implemented a phony nomination of Ms. Watts (who was their chosen one by blasting her photo all over the place - that naked aggression could not go without a response). We were excited when we stopped them in their devious plan - we would have loved if the TWU Local 100 implemented the Yankees policy of no facial hair so those two could be clean shaven for their ill behavior that will not be forgotten.
Currently Tony Utano has recommended John V Chiarello to the Track Safety Task Force. This was based on Chiarello asking, which was absurd - imagine in any organization if a person asks to be appointed to certain position - while that position is occupied in capable hands of Tommy Creegan without a blemish on his TSTF status, then it is ridiculous. The same pattern of behavior that the grand vizier Steve Downs applied to Ms. Terry Adams is being copied by Tony Utano who has shut email account of Mr. Creegan - now advancing their chosen one. However this is a naked that aggression should not go without a response.
Utano’s recommendation is as phony as a three dollar bill. It is based on ‘advancing their safety issues’ there is no indication that Tommy Creegan is not capable of advancing safety issues, or whether in the past he has been neglectful. It is not far fetched that the incompetent president John Samuelsen will appoint his yes man to the TSTF. However, we know this is repeat of Ms. Terry Adams - we here in why did you join the union will say no to Tony Utano’s recommendation.
A recommendation to our fellow co workers who are at the unionhall - do not accept the local cell phones, emails accounts or even business cards - do buy your own cell phone so grand vizier Steve Downs cannot know whom you talk too. Have a free email account from google, so he will not be able to close the account or review your content, lastly buy your own business cards for $9.99. Clearly the membership is showing the signs of Samuelsen fatigue by their shenanigans. There is no question that the membership’s response would be to shift to different direction.
The argugement here seems to be: Is healthy dialogue an asset to good business practices? My answer would be yes.
ReplyDeleteHealthy is dialogue is essential to good business practices.
That being said and not to judge the cases or individuals you mention, when does good, healthy dialogue or even disagreements cross the line into undermining the "business" or become a exercise in counter productivity?
That is where "management" in any "business" earns its money.
It is rather dicey situation, to be surrounded by yes men is a paralysis of ideas, but to be surrounded by professional critics is a paralysis of action.
While this point has nothing to do with any of the individuals you mention in your post, it is a stage in which almost all businesses reach at one point or another.
It reminds me of a quote by Billy Martin: " on a team you have 25 guys, 5 hate you, 5 love and 15 just do thier job; the key to being a good manager is not having the 15 who do thier job, join the 5 that hate you."
In a lot of ways this is a key compnent of management everywhere.