If the company tells the union to fuck off, all of the workers who belong to that union walk off the job and the employer has to run short handed or shut down production.
The union is the workers joining together so that they have more bargaining power - all the people who know how the business works are sitting idle. Can the business afford to replace and retrain them all?
If the company tells the union to fuck off, all of the workers who belong to that union walk off the job and the employer has to run short handed or shut down production.
or hire scabs. (which... heh. leads to bullshit QC.) (don't be a scab...)
Which isn't legal everywhere!
Or, if you’re in Reagan Mode™: declare the strike illegal, fire everyone, and hire scabs as permanent replacements.
Genuinely surprised that that whole ATC negotiation fiasco didn’t eventually involve some sort of air catastrophe.
If the company tells the union to fuck off, all of the workers who belong to that union walk off the job and the employer has to run short handed or shut down production.
The union is the workers joining together so that they have more bargaining power - all the people who know how the business works are sitting idle. Can the business afford to replace and retrain them all?
or hire scabs. (which... heh. leads to bullshit QC.) (don't be a scab...)
Which isn't legal everywhere!
Or, if you’re in Reagan Mode™: declare the strike illegal, fire everyone, and hire scabs as permanent replacements.
Genuinely surprised that that whole ATC negotiation fiasco didn’t eventually involve some sort of air catastrophe.
Disco elysium style