Instead our job must be modified to accommodate our disability and prevent new disabilities. We must negotiate limits to management's ability to redesign or re-engineer our workplaces to get rid of lighter duty jobs. Electronic surveillance New technologies provide management more immediate information about work processes. These developments, whether computers, management information systems or video taping, should not be used to monitor workers or measure individual performance. We must demand language that limits the use of intrusive technologies and limits what management can do with the information collected.
Time study reps There is a renewed managerial enthusiasm for work method and time systems.
Today computerized time systems are being used to calculate job elements, times and even ergonomic factors. These systems are being used to tighten up our jobs. We need ergonomic changes to jobs. In large workplaces we need full time union ergonomics reps. Basic ergonomics education for all workers.