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Could be. Happened to me in the late 80s. The company I worked for moved to Fla. from Indiana to escape unions and warned if we tried to unionize they would be gone in 2 years. Some of the workers tried it, I attempted to stop em but nooooo they had to be greedy. 2 years later they were gone just like they said and I DO NOT BLAME THEM ONE BIT.
You don’t have to be a hotbed of worker union sympathy to be affected as a company. All you need be is a target of union forces and the bluedog Democrats that support them because of their voting power. Couple that with a sympathetic media and you end up with a situation that a company has to deal with that has nothing to do with conditions, benefits and worker satisfaction. It’s all maneuvering and a national game executed locally.
I’ll leave it to Walmart to decide what is in their own best interests.
I had worked at a packing plant in Schuyler, Nebraska in 1982. Was union and people making anywhere from $10 to 15 an hour. Management asked that we take a $2 an hour pay cut and the union advised the employees to reject it which they did. Locked the doors for two years and rehired most of the people who stayed around for half the pay.