• nonearther@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m not saying he meant anti-union by that line, but that’s classic anti-union line saying my employees don’t need unions.

    Very much in line of “unions means less money for you” statement.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah the whole “I love unions, but we at this company are a family so we don’t need that”, is peak anti-union talk. Throughout history it’s been used by people who are horrible to their employees.

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        Exactly. If I was really concerned about my employees etc. I would want them to have a union with power that could match mine to argue their needs and concerns. If he had a union a lot of these problems and mistakes that he’s having likely wouldn’t have occurred.

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      1 year ago

      True. If he said that line in response to a statement about wages. I can’t say that I exactly remember the context in which he made that statement, but I believe that it (ironically, given this post) had more to do with workplace culture than wages.

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      Yup, there’s certainly correlation, especially with the “trust me bro” warranty discussion they had (see GN video about it, I think they also link to the relevant WAN show).

      But correlation does not prove motive, so we’d only know what his actual stance is in how he responds to unionizing efforts. That hasn’t happened, and now that he has a separate CEO, he could potentially use that CEO as the scapegoat.

      I don’t trust him, but I can’t say that he’s strictly anti-union.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not unusual for several people to have the same rational thought process. That’s why it’s “classic”.