The size of the stater brothers operation sounds much smaller than amazon’s. So I would assume the potential upside would be small for somebody to come in and c

The size of the stater brothers operation sounds much smaller than amazon’s. So I would assume the potential upside would be small for somebody to come in and compete. But good point. I’ve been following the whole union thing with Boeing for years and the situation I described is exactly what happened with them for both the machinists and the engineers. Both groups are heavily unionized for Boeing in the Seattle area. After years of the union continuously pushing Boeing to improve wages and benefits, and that made Boeing start looking for a way to get around the union.. moved to “right to work” states, moved head quarters, outsourced to other contractors.. basically the unions pushed the company to diversify their options for building planes. And this is in one of the most expensive product categories you can imagine. So in low margin industries, unionization is without a doubt risky for the future of those workers. You may say I’m speaking the company line but a review of history in the factories in the US shows that unless the company can directly compete with the overseas competitors, they are run out of business by people buying the cheaper and often similar quality product. There are many people in China right now trying to automate as much of their business as possible so that people in more developed countries cannot undercut them once they figure out how to automate before they do.. and if a particular factory in China decides not to do it to help keep their workers, somebody else will do it that currently is not rich and doesn’t own a factory.. why should they let the other guys who already own the factory be the last people to own a factory and no innovation after them? So yea they will get funding and start their own automated factories. So it’s a continuous race to the bottom and every time people say “oh hey stop, we are good” somebody sneaks past them and keeps the race going.. I think the real take away is we need to figure out how to have something like a union that helps people but doesn’t basically hurt the companies competiveness globally.. maybe having the people get paid the same but the robots do more.. the people should push for that instead of unionizing and asking for more money to work less.. because let’s not kid ourselves, that is what people that are unionizing are hoping happens..