Posted on 03/05/2009 11:23:41 AM PST by hdbc
Does anyone with experience in these matters know what can be done, if anything, if your business becomes unionized as a result of card check? Are there any civil disobediance measures a business owner could take against the unionization? Could you shut down or lock out the operation? Obviously, this would be expensive, but so will forcibly having a union imposed on your business.
Offshore your business to China or India. Obama is going to push that trend through the roof.
CLOSE YOU DOORS AND JOIN THE UNION....... YOU WILL PROBABLY BE BETTER OF
You can do what my friend’s father did. Openly oppose the union. Of course, the Teamsters then murdered him (his car exploded upon starting).
I think if a business is in this position, they should talk with an attorney on what options they have.. there are a lot of regulations against businesses speaking against unions, etc.
Shut your business down.
Atlas Shrugs.................
Get out ahead of this thing with whatever organization you belong to (NFIB etc) and raise hell over it. Start the lawsuits NOW. Don’t wait to be hit in the face with this! Are you in a right to work state? That will likely be gone.
We all seem so disorganized while that tyrannical sob, who’s name defiles my mouth (or keyboard), slashes all around.
If you think it is expensive to fight, wait until you see how expensive it is to live with.
Shut down immediately. Or better yet, find a way to offshore their jobs.
I think this is the only real legal option.
Of course, another business can buy the assets (if any) and start over.
Of course you can shut down. And you should.
You shut down the current company and reopen using a new name, new papers, etc. You can even stay in the same spot.
Hire all new employees and let the new employees know what you did and you are willing to do it again.
Again, if card-check passes, and your workers have teh slightest inclination to go union, you're screwed.
I suggest a long sabbatical and contemplating ways to use your entreprenurial skills in a more welcoming economy
A caller on Mar Levin show last night discussed the ramifications of this bill for his business. If the workers fall for this and later decide against unionization, they have to do a secret vote - and then wait two years.
Only employ people you know and trust.
make that Mark Levin
you might still hear the show in his archives
A new business entity and investor, you, can buy the assets of the old company and hire temporaries from a temp agency. They workers are paid by the agency, not you, and they are employees of the agency. You pay the agency and send back any slackers for replacement.
Make sure this policy and plan of action is known to your employees now.
If it was me, I’d close my doors. Let the union hire the employees who lost their jobs.
Get your assets into another corporation and then you have the option - after the required period of time - of bankrupting the unionized business and either selling off the assets or starting up again.
You do this by having a leasing company that leases the assets to the old corporation. These needs to be done by a good attorney to ensure that the corporate veil cannot be pierced.
Get your assets into another corporation and then you have the option - after the required period of time - of bankrupting the unionized business and either selling off the assets or starting up again.
You do this by having a leasing company that leases the assets to the old corporation. These needs to be done by a good attorney to ensure that the corporate veil cannot be pierced.
I despise the unions.
I worked for a union shop once.
What a nightmare.
I had two bosses, my manager and the shop steward, both working at cross purposes. One telling me to do more, and the other telling me to do less. I HATED it.
The shop steward and union president acted and talked like street thugs. It was the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. What a bunch of communist, low-life gorillas.
I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I found a non-union job after just three months. What a relief.
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