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Many small businesses are not unionized, but you will typically hear
the owners and management GD'ing unions with the same venom one would
expect from a company that was in the midst of an intense labor
negotiation. The challenge for them is that the unions set the bar.
It's the fear of losing their best employees to a union shop that
forces many employers to pay good wages to top talent. Small business
owners can keep the unions out by paying a living wage, treating
employees fairly, offering competitive benefits, etc. As long as the
SB's offer a decent wage and working environment, the union organizers
will make very little headway among the employees. When a business,
large or small, treats employees poorly then under our labor laws those
employees have the right to organize and bargain collectively for
better wages or conditions. Seems fair to me. :-)


I agree with everything above except for the first sentence. If you don't
mind a correction , most ... not "many" small businesses are non-union and
the subject of unions rarely comes up, so there's no need to GD them. In
30 years of business, we lost one, repeat, one person to a union job and
that was because of the "Big Dig" project in Boston. They needed welders
badly and were recruiting them right out of our shop, meaning they slipped
in the back door and started handing out leaflets. I couldn't blame the
guy - his package was incredible - far more than anything any company, big
or small, could match at the time. Fortunately, of all the welders and fab
people we had he was the only one that decided to go and within a year
regretted it.

RCE