Steven Hoppe

I don’t have much experience with cross culture factory integration but I have worked 2 jobs under engineering positions where both had strong union presence. The one thing I can say for a fact is that unions started for a good and much needed cause but have lost their way. They are still needed today but have lost their rightful place. The two companies I worked for suffered massively in more than just financially because of unions. The workers are more prone to be lazy, selfish, ignorant and mean. One union worker threatened to beat me up when I was asked if I was going to vote for a union bill and I said I wasn’t going to. On top of inspiring bad type of workers they will then turn around and protect that worker despite being a bad worker, this is the grounds on which they have lost their way. They were and still are needed to protect the balance between worker and company interest but and drifted FAR from the healthy grounds for this balance. They create a work environment I never will/want to work in again. They inspire me to be lazy and be a bad worker. Don’t even get me started on where the union puts money and lobbying political agenda, all I will say about that is unions should not be any where near supporting ANY political party. The union in this movie is painted out to be the good guy and the solution and I can tell you for fact that the way unions are now makes them not the solution. This movie got that very wrong. They did do a good job of portraying the difficulty of establishing a cross cultural factory. I give the movie a 6/10 for good presentation of hard sensitive issues but negative is tending to present one view point instead of presenting unbiased presentation