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>>In other words: these employees would have lost their job regardless of their union status IDK that we can make that assumption. Instacart management has mad
by moate 6y ago
>>In other words: these employees would have lost their job regardless of their union status
IDK that we can make that assumption. Instacart management has made themselves out to be anti-unionization (a common view by management in the US). If you're an anti-union manager, and you're about to make a massive, 2,000 person layoff declaration, you're going to make sure the unionized group of 10 people is on that list. Can't let that sort of thought spread to other locations, and this serves as a good example to those trying to organize in the future. It's easy to avoid a NLRB loss if you bust the union as part of a larger layoff.
The only thing that would have been telling is if they had announced a huge layoff and NOT taken out the union shop.
- jasonshaev 6y agoYou're right -- my last statement was a bit too much of a leap. In this case I wonder if it would have even mattered if a significant percentage of the workforce was unionized.
- moate 6y agoIt might have. Unions are political forces. You get a few thousand people calling and screaming at politicians and news outlets to create a negative stink about it, maybe the company looks at other ways to make themselves more financially healthy. I'm not saying it would, just that it could. That's a big part of the appeal of a union, having a group of people with diverse backgrounds and experiences able to bring those backgrounds to the table to help in fights against management.