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Originally posted by lendaddy
Do companies engage in those tactics now? Would they be sued blind if they did? No one said unions never did any good, they just don't anymore. And that doesn't mean they couldn't either.....they just don't.
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Len, you keep asserting that the time for unions has passed, and that is the topic I began this thread to discuss. Very much on point. And there may be SOME truth to your assertion. Some. But even (and especially) if there is, the repeal of that function and those protections should absolutely NOT be a happy thought to management. Management wishes for less constraints upon their decisions and actions. And if management were always making good, worker-respecting, socially responsible decisions, then this would work fine. But that's nto what happens. In fact, if a corporate CEO faces a choice between a society-friendly and worker-respecting decisions - versus - an opportunity to make megabucks.....his legal responsibility is to choose the megabucks (assuming that his decision is not contrary to law).
If and when these labor protections erode until they are not effective......there will be a backlash that management will enjoy even less than today's status quo.
Workers and their families, once they are sufficiently riled, will win this exchange every time. You live in a democracy, and workers outnumber owners. One if the outcomes of a democracy that I am sad to see anyone decry.