If I were a small or medium sized business owner, as soon as my employees started any kind of unionization effort, I’d shut the business down and sell off the assets.
Imagine their surprise when they come in some Monday morning, expecting to make 5 times minimum wage only to find they’re out of a job.
I’d leave a big sign up for them that says “How’s that whole union thing working out for you?”
I guess the thing to do is have a number of (very) small businesses. As soon as your retail business gets to $500,000, split it into 2 businesses operating at the same address.
If I were a small or medium sized business owner, as soon as my employees started any kind of unionization effort, I’d shut the business down and sell off the assets.
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Yep, in a heartbeat I would do the same.
That is exactly what the owner of the biz that my hubby does work for threatened to do a few years back. A few of the drivers started stirring the pot, trying to get a union in for the drivers, and the owner said point blank that he would close the doors and sell off all the trucks and let them find another job.
Thing is... having a union in there... he would have to lay off half the workforce to afford the rest and that would put him out of business anyway. But he refused to allow a union to run him out, he said he would do it himself first.
Imagine their surprise when they come in some Monday morning, expecting to make 5 times minimum wage only to find they’re out of a job.
I’d leave a big sign up for them that says “How’s that whole union thing working out for you?”
About 30 years ago there was a company named Fairchild Semi-conductors that had built a plant on the Navajo Indian Reservation. There were over 5000 Navajos who worked there, and then the unions started making demands and called a strike. When they all went on strike, Fairchild shut their doors and moved off the reservation. That cost over 5K employees their jobs. Needless to say, they were stunned. Of course, the union went away since there was no more income, and those people who have bought nice homes and nice cars lost it all.
Having owned several small businesses, I can tell you for sure that many small businesses would follow the path that Fairchild took. We've already got too much government intrusion in our businesses.