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:: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 ::

Harder than steel - Defending the ‘workplace rule of law’ By Jack Schierenbeck , UFT
The suits in the suites, business schools, editorial boardrooms and, yes, City Hall and the Tweed Courthouse, hate work rules. Why shouldn't they? Ever since the first shop steward waved a copy of the contract in a supervisor's face and declared, 'It says here you can't do that!' management has longed for a return to the days when, as they like to say, 'managers managed and workers worked.'

But if work rules were management's devil's bargain, they were a godsend to workers like Johnny Metzgar, Jack's father. To the elder Metzgar, a mill hand and union shop steward at the Johnston Works of U.S. Steel during the glory years of American steel, work rules meant getting out from under 'arbitrary authority and all the indignities, the humiliation, and the fear that come with being directly subject to the unlimited authority of another human being.'

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