> I hear at work how our union guys are "scumbags" and how they "only do what's in the contract" and how they "won't work overtime."
Sorry, not an American, but why those are bad things? Where I work overtime is paid 130% of the base pay and no one would do something not in their contract. I mean, that's literally the reason we have contracts.
Genuinely curious about the rationale behind this mentality.
In Italy ambulances are almost always run by volunteers. The rationale behind this is that most of the time when they are called, it is not something very serious, but when it is (like cardiac arrest) they are trained citizen who need to pass a rigorous exam and every hospital also as a emergency car with a medic (usually a rianimator) that can be sent along the ambulance if needed. I do not know if this model is used in the rest of europe
Sorry, not an American, but why those are bad things? Where I work overtime is paid 130% of the base pay and no one would do something not in their contract. I mean, that's literally the reason we have contracts. Genuinely curious about the rationale behind this mentality.