Would you support 7 day work weeks?

[Master]

That is corruption plane and simple. I am sure it works the other way too in management which is equally as bad.

For sure!

My dad works as a city work foreman (municipal government = strong union) so I hear a lot of the union horror stories from him. He estimates he gets about 4 hours worth of work from the workers there. When they hire on new employees they start off working hard, but the senior guys get to them quick and make them slow down, because it makes them look bad. So to go to Kabong's point, you have guys pulling other workers down to their shitty level so as not to look bad. If you resist, you get bullied and fucked with by the senior guys.

I'm lucky enough to have a job where the management and union are cool and work reasonably together.

I have heard your public services have been run down to bear minimum and maybe the staff do that because they do not want further unnecessary cuts by management who go on Prince 2 lean process training and think they know how to run it as a business and not a public service.