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I believe that is illegal. See[0] [0] https://qz.com/2191767/are-starbucks-and-chipotle-union-busting-by-closing-stores https://qz.com/2191767/are-starbucks-an

• monero-xmr 4y ago
  > Even if Starbucks and Chipotle are eventually found to have committed unfair labor practices by closing stores, the legal and financial repercussions for the companies will be comparatively light. > “The nature of our labor law now, it actually makes financial sense for companies to break the union law, stifle the drive, and be found guilty,” says Joe McCartin, a history professor at Georgetown University and the co-author of Labor in America: A History. “The most they have to do is pay these employees back wages minus whatever they’ve earned in the intervening time” if the employees got other jobs after the stores closed. “That’s hardly much of a penalty.”
  • causi 4y ago
    I will never understand why there isn't something on the order of an article of the Constitution requiring the penalty for any criminal act must meet or exceed the unlawful profits generated thereby.
    • mathieuh 4y ago
      Because the ones who have the power to make and change the rules are the ones who would lose out from making them stricter. They're hardly going to legislate against themselves.