Yes, I would 100% shut down before allow my business to unionize.
I really don't care what you think.
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Apple Store in Maryland Makes History by Voting to Unionize
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Yes, I would 100% shut down before allow my business to unionize.
I really don't care what you think.
Ah, the board members... a
Imagine if employee pay was determined by a group of similar employees and not those higher up.
Too bad CEO pay isn't determinted by shareholder vote. Too bad whenever shareholders vote on CEO compensation packages, it's only advisory and nonbinding.
I know you don't care what I think, just like you wouldn't care what your employees think. That's why you'll never succeed in business.
That “too big to fail” doctrine has been around a long time. In actuality the company already failed. It’s an excuse to have someone else foot the bill. I’m for free markets. If a company does well they should be able to keep their profits and not pay high taxes. But at the same time when they do poorly they should eat their own losses and not being able to pass the bill to taxpayers. But in 2008 it seemed every one I knew whether Republican or Democrat backed TARP and I was the only person I knew who was against it.
well thats dumb for a state to force you to join a union. honestly never knew USA would force unions. Best as you said to allow people to unionise if they want and protect that right, and allow those who dont want to be in unions to stay out
You mean the then ceo was doing their job? Reduce costs and increase revenue?
Let’s pay money to a fat cat union and not be paid more or get better conditions. Yay! A bunch of machinists who work physically hard for a living will care about self-entitled GenZers who stand around in a retail store.
Unions in 2022 have one basic premise. The company that employs me is ripping me off and I hate them for it, maybe if we gather together we can force then to offer better benefits. It pits the employer against the employee and puts a middle man (union management) in between, who then shakes down both sides for their own cutout. It’s an unhealthy business to its core.
Which is exactly why unions exist: to prevent an employer for firing employees in retaliation
People used to believe the earth was flat, too, and that we lived in an earth centric universe. It was a "simple" theory. But it was really, really wrong. Sometimes things are complicated. On the one hand, those "handful" of people didn't overcome those obstacles on their own. They had help from thousands. On the other, you really can't "strip out" economic structures without diminishing our basic understanding of the struggles those "lazy bums" (so-called) are going through on a daily basis.
Conservatives always lament liberal tears, yet take umbrage when they are asked to pay their fair share.
But here is the thing. Those Wall Street banks together accounted for a massive percentage of national GDP. If those companies had gone under, the country would have gone into an unprecedented credit shock and a massive depression would have followed, on same scale as 1920s.
The problem was lobbyists and bipartisan politicians in the 1990s who killed the Glass-Steagal Act. The problem IS free market ideology. If this had been questioned when we had the opportunity, the Wall Street monopolies would never have emerged in the first place.
This is a fiction. There is no state that forces anyone to join a union. There are union shops that require you to pay union dues IF it is a union shop, in order to stop folks free-loading on the hard won benefits the union brings to the shop.
Apple can easily close the store down, eh? Know much about business leases, do you? Apple would have to continue paying the lease on the property, plus likely some percentage of sales.
Just how many businesses have you started? I've started a couple, and it's not that easy to just "become CEO". Your suggestion is both facile and ridiculous.
See, I'm NOT for free markets. I'm against poorer nations being able to pay their workers a slave wage so American companies ship jobs from the U.S. to those countries. I'm against taking a poor country like China and sending so many of our manufacturing jobs there that they turn into an economic powerhouse, an authoritarian kleptocracy that is now our enemy. WE did that. We created our own enemy. Gee, wasn't that smart.
That's some very nice corporate drivel you've regurgitated there. The actual fact is unions raise wages for everyone in society. Once workers see unionized workers getting better pay, they'll unionize too. In time, unionization raises wages for everyone. Maybe read a history book or something. Apple can afford to pay employees $30 an hour, and they should.
The high turnover is a result of not being in a union... individually they have no rights but collectively they do in a strong union.