Spite seems pretty plausible. There’s no evidence that he was going to shutdown the companies prior to the unionization. In fact, he was more than happy to keep

Spite seems pretty plausible. There’s no evidence that he was going to shutdown the companies prior to the unionization. In fact, he was more than happy to keep it afloat right up until the unionization vote. To say that the two aren’t related, it’s to stretch credulity past the breaking point.