The union Nazis will not rest until every employee in the United States is forced to turn over a portion of their wages to the union Gestapo.
I’m in a union and I’m against this type of crap...they should sue the living crap out of them...
3rd generation family owned business here. On tuesday, we found out that we now have an employee who has filed with the plumbers union for a union vote in the shop.
We have been non-union for 12 years (most of us were union at one time or another), and have benefited and grown as a merit shop. Our guys work year round, they get overtime, and haven’t been laid off since we went non-union. Our union counterparts sit idle for the winter collecting unemployment.
Anyways, the letter we got informed us that it was illegal to talk to our employees about the upcoming vote. We can’t even have an employee meeting on the matter. We were informed that if we talked to employees individually about the matter (many of whom have been with our family for over 20 years), we can be fined by the NLRB.
We have been informed that it is illegal for us to attempt to sell or transfer ownership of our company while negotiations with the union are ongoing.
We have been informed that it is a federal crime to move the location of our business during this proceeding as well.
The proceeding is expected to last 3-6 months. During this time, we may be summoned by a mediator to turn over any and all documents related to earnings, pay, profits, expenditures and losses (in otherwords anything they want).
We may not dismiss, lay off, or terminate any employees during this time period.
In other words, we have just been informed, that our family business has been set on the spit, and the fire has been set.
I am up now, worried to death, I have a meeting with our attorneys this morning, for some sort of council.
I think this may be it for us. We may just close up shop, head up north and open that bait shop I’ve been wanting to do for the past 10 years. I don’t know.
I will now have 8 guys laid off and without jobs... but hey, they wanted to be union. Now they can be union and unemployed. I feel betrayed, and have a total F.U. attitude at this point towards the guys we have paid and looked after for all these years.
I am sure even posting this is somehow even illegal at this point, and will come back to haunt me over the next few months.
...time to go make another pot of coffee