This tactic ends that "You unionize and we leave" crap. Wal Mart is going to unionize. They had the money to increase pay and assist the employees to keep them happy and then it would be the employees telling the unions to piss off.
If a company wants to leave because it has been unionized so be it. If its a bad company that refuses to deal with the issues it will be unionized again. Despite how red some place might seem. If people are staring at the clock begging for it to move faster just to get away. The place will be unionized.
There are situations where unions are used to squeeze every last ounce out of the company. but that is only in rare cases. And its not dishonest to feel that the work you do deserves more.
For instance if minimum wage had kept up with inflation we would be at nearly 15 USD an hour. Am I unethical for thinking that I deserve atleast 10 USD for working my butt off at a grocery? (I get min wage AND I am unionized makes sence eh?)
There is no way outside of maybe UAW that a Union can truely squeeze every last ounce from a company. I know that because it was MY line back when I was Anti-Union. That is because a happy workforce works better with less accidents and less incident meaning better results. The auto workforce at ford and GM is some of the best in the world. But that means jack crap if they are happily making SUVs instead of Cheap hybrids that the market demands.
The giant Anti-Union efforts of the banks, Wal Mart, Home Depot, and other comapnies are simply because of a fantasy that Unions are deadly commie snakes that want to destroy them because of their size. Instead of giving people a fair shake.
If wages get better people will spend more. That will benefit the economy.
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