We never had any problems but the picketers had a very limited public space to use and two armed guards at the gate. We also parked around the backside of the building in a big courtyard type of space.
They didn’t have anything to offer that was worth the restrictions that would be placed on us by the company if we accepted a troublemaking big union. We didn’t make as much but we had good PHP insurance, a good working relationship with the company and most important, each employee was an individual and could work out extra sick time or other time off with the company. We did have scale pay which I hated.
After we got rid of the AFL-CIO we actually got more pay. We got a profit sharing plan in place as a result and we made as much as 500 bucks a month in bonuses and over 2 grand at the end of the year. Of course, the corporation hated it but since the plan included managers and all, they went along. A portion of the bonus plan would go to benefits and still we got good payouts.
The place ran so smooth it was unreal. Funny thing was that some of the slackers became good workers-the rest left.