Non-Union Jobs
I don’t own an iPod or a MacIntosh computer, but I admire Steve Jobs. He’s made mistakes, of course.
One mistake was hiring John Sculley; a man of limited ability, and zero vision, who successfully maneuvered to have Jobs removed from Apple a short two years after being recruited from Pepsi.
Apple barely survived the incompetence of Sculley. Jobs returned to run the company in 1996, and take on the seemingly impossible challenge of competing against Microsoft. Jobs’ stunning comeback is one of the all-time great business success stories.
The Jobs stock option scandal doesn’t interest me. What does are comments he made recently at an education forum, concerning public school teachers. He doesn’t like unions. He wishes school principals could fire teachers.
“I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way. This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy.”
Michael Dell, who was present, explained succinctly why unions came into existence.
“The employer was treating his employees unfairly and that was not good.”
Thank you, Michael Dell.
5 comments February 22nd, 2007