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The most common union disaster is the employer suddenly and without warning deciding to shutter the location that unionized, usually citing 'crime'.
by vkou 2y ago
The most common union disaster is the employer suddenly and without warning deciding to shutter the location that unionized, usually citing 'crime'.
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoIs that actually the most common?
- dmix 2y agoMy father in law ran a decent electrians business and the employees unionized and the costs destroyed his business. He ended up returning to be a tradesman despite being in his 50s as he took debt to keep it afloat and the employees now work non-unionized at the only other electrician business in town with a worse boss (according to friends I know in town disconnected from the drama). That's usually the most common disaster.
- vkou 2y agoIf a business is 'destroyed' by rising prices of its inputs, we generally don't blame the vendors. Cost of labour went up, it's up to the business to adapt.
- burnerthrow008 2y agoSounds like it did adapt. It did the rational thing of ceasing to exist (taking all the jobs with it).
- vkou 2y agoAnd unless people in that town stopped using electricity, all of those jobs didn't disappear, they were recreated at the next shop over. I doubt the uncle in this story was John Galt, or some other fantasy superhero.
- dmix 2y agoHe literally took loans to try to adapt but the economics and large administrative burden didn't make sense.