To be honest, I don't actually want to work at a place that has better job security.
Obviously, I wouldn't mind better job security for just myself; but if the downside is that my employer can't get rid of the dead wood, I'd rather work elsewhere.
Obviously, I wouldn't mind better job security for just myself; but if the downside is that my employer can't get rid of the dead wood, I'd rather work elsewhere.
It’s mostly protection vs the Amazon style fire people regularly so we can avoid paying unemployment insurance when we do seasonal layoffs etc.
Some of this just comes down to both being local government jobs run by a multitude of independent systems some of which are going to be far below average. There are ~13,506 school districts in the US, so the bottom 5% consists of 675 different systems with a huge range of issues.
The other issue is it can be hard to get replacements.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/...
A cop can be fired for sexually assaulting a teenager in his squad car, and end up getting rehired by the same department.
I'm not anti-union but it's a double edged sword.