I believe if you would have read my other posts you would see that I openly admit that this behavior occurs at non-union outfits as well.
I'll give you credit for that, Brother,..........But you have to admit sometimes the corporate propaganda influences the way people perceive things..........sometimes even unbeknownst to the person doing the "perceiving"......
The point I was trying to make was that there is a rise in intrusive technology,......GPS, driver-facing cameras, computer-recorded driving techniques, lane control warnings,.....that spells corporate micro-managing the most liability-ridden sector of their workforce.
The company salesman,...on company time, and in a company car, going to a sales meeting with a customer,......doesn't have a driver-facing camera staring at him, ....or face discipline based on GPS information.
Basically,.....the technology is used to ........build a case for dismissal,....on pretty much every driver.....
To be used,...ONLY when they need it,......
Like, say,.....when a guy shows up with Union petition for organization. In the corporate eyes, he's interfering with the companies' operations,...and under Employment-at-Will,......he can be fired for....anything other than "Union organizing"...
They can fire him for "theft of time",......3 minutes unaccounted for at a customer's dock. Theft is Theft,....there is no "degree of theft"....(...That quote comes from a company official at a grievance hearing..).....
They can fire him for going down a 10 ton road while weighing 16 tons,..........regardless of the fact that he's done this for ....years prior to his discipline.....
They can fire him for "inappropriate actions" for giving a finger to an idiot who cut him off,.....and having that incident recorded on a driver-facing camera.......
With increasing driver surveillance through technology,........in the name of "Safety",......we ALL become guilty of,....something. The way the companies "sold" the idea of intrusive technology,....was by creating a myth that,.....drivers NEEDED electronic baby-sitting,.........'cause, you know,.....those Darned Lazy Drivers will Goof Off every chance they get,....if We Don't Watch Them!
And.....many drivers fell for that myth,........and applied it to whichever group of drivers it was more politically expedient to hang that albatross around the neck of.......
"Lazy Union Drivers" comes to mind,..........because that was the group speaking up against intrusive technology for driver surveillance...........Damn! They must have something to Hide!
Or,....maybe we are more concerned with the Constitutionality of constant surveillance,....and it's use in punitive discipline to silence dissenters through economic intimidation.........
Nah,...........got to be Lazy Drivers........