This article in the Capital & Main series was written by Marcus Baram and is titled ”Inside the Secretive World of Union-Busting: Here’s How Much Corporations Pay to Bust Unions.” Subtitle: “U.S. companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to ensure workers don’t organize.”
It begins:
A handful of workers at the Dollar General In the small Connecticut town of Barkhamsted had grown frustrated last September at being poorly treated by a district manager, amid allegations
The organizing effort involved just six workers (five after one said he was fired for his efforts to unionize) earning $13 an hour — so about $624 a day in total — but the company spent multiples of that to combat the union drive. Dollar General paid Labor Relations Institute, a firm known for its union avoidance consulting, a fee of $2,700 per day for each consultant it brought in, according to filings with the Department of Labor. LRI used five consultants, who reportedly held one-on-one meetings with workers and conducted group sessions to educate them on the risks of joining a union. In the end, the unionization effort failed and the company breathed a sigh of relief. The retail giant posted $33.7 billion in sales and $2.7 billion in profit in 2020, but remains convinced its future earnings might have been hurt if any of its 157,000 workers joined a union.
What do you say when a corporation cares more about profits than the lives of its workers?
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Reminds me of the SLAVE trader days.
Wait,..we still have slaves.
Workers should realize that if employers go to such an extreme measure to surveil and disrupt Zoom meetings, there must be something of great value in joining a union. If union membership had little value, billionaires and corporations would not be stooping to illegal measures to thwart workers’ efforts to join one.
Collectivism is only way workers can ensure they will be treated fairly by management. if we look at the history of labor in this country, we see that the wealthy have always tried to stop union membership because they know unions will result in helping to level the field between labor and management. Many have died from management’s attempt to crush labor. Join a union, and fight for decent pay, benefits and safe working conditions.
“What do you say when a corporation cares more about profits than the lives of its workers?”
I say it’s fighting time, to lock and load.
It used to be that companies hired outside “consultants” to bust unions and/or prevent unionization of workers.
But now the entire edifice of many corporations is constructed with that in mind. So, effectively, unionization is disincentivized from within.
They might hire outside consultants if the normal disincentives are not working, but in many cases they don’t need to.
Consultants have moved inside to become insultants.
Just leaving this here in case anyone cares and/or wants to make snide, dismissive comments about it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/
“Masks may well help prevent the spread of COVID, some of these experts told me, and there may well be contexts in which they should be required in schools. But the data being touted by the CDC—which showed a dramatic more-than-tripling of risk for unmasked students—ought to be excluded from this debate. ”
Case closed.
Now what this had to do with unions other than you can always find an opinion piece!!!! that says that unions provide little or no benefit and the author can always find “experts ” to support that position.
However this author did not or could not find experts to support your position. He found some who were critical of the methodology of a study.
How about a comment about the post .
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