>>>Unions gain leverage in both ways they admit (fraudulent sick-outs, abandoning jobs they agreed to do, etc.) and in ways they do not admit to, but which are well-known (veiled threats of sabotage, violence, intimidation of replacement hires, etc.).
>>>If any other vendors ganged up on consumers this way they would be looking at civil lawsuits and jailtime.
Remember the bone that show up in the meat shipment to Japan that got our imports banned?
That happened at Atlantic Veal & Lamb, in Brooklyn NY. A la Workers’ Union, Local 155, employees.
Here is a cease and desist order for their behavior on previous occasions.
http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/decisions/342/342-37.htm
Am I saying that bone was put in that shipment as a form of activism? Well, I didn't say that. But just look at this thread as a lovely example of the behavior of our Union Workers.
I'll put my crayolas down now.
What was the gist of the threat made at Rush? I came in late, didn't hear it.
It's speculated in the beef industry that this latest with Japan was a set up. The shipment had been pre-approved by Japan, only to be stopped when actually imported. It smells of Japanese beef-lobby which is against reinstating of American beef imports.
Whether Atlantic Lamb and Veal was a willing accomplice or a useful idiot is anybody's guess.