[asinclair]

The article has very much a "glass is half empty" attitude. What the article misses is that those 12 employees are now free to form their own company or companies, and win sub-contracts with their former employer.

The upside is they can decide if they want to bid on a job or give it a pass. The downside is that any bid they put in will have to be competitive.

Welcome to capitalism, guys.

[Openurmind]

“What the article misses is that those 12 employees are now free to form their own company or companies, and win sub-contracts with their former employer.”

This is absolutely true given they did not sign a non-compete. But there is a huge difference between unproductive union mentality employees and productive business owners. The dedication, sacrifice, and self investment is just not there to be successful with their own business. When they punch out, mentally they want to be “off work” until they have to punch back in again. And when clocked in they do no more than they absolutely have to (not my job according to my union agreement), just enough to say they have showed up for work. As where owning your own business you have to live, eat, and sleep business 24-7 to make it be productive and successful, you are never “off work”.

[RFEngineer]

“The upside is they can decide if they want to bid on a job or give it a pass. The downside is that any bid they put in will have to be competitive.”

Yep. Build in all the union perks, bennies, time off, payscales. They would be lucky to land within an order of magnitude of a winning bid.