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An independent but franchise affiliated grocery store did that around here back in the eighties. Good business, the only store for many miles any direction. No real reason to close.
One day I go by and the place is shuttered tight, boarded up, parking lot roped off. A lot of the details are lost to time, at least to me, but the basic issue was employees wanted to join a union and the owner said he'd shut down before that ever happened. And that's exactly what he did. Three years later it was open again. Same owner, same franchise. But, no old employees, entirely new staff. Still open to this day with no union in sight.
Unfortunately unions have destroyed many companies and yet, there are still gullible people thinking they are a good thing...
For the past 100 years history around the glove has taught us repeatedly that socialism/communism does not work in the real world. When do we learn the lesson?
Unfortunately unions have destroyed many companies and yet, there are still gullible people thinking they are a good thing...
For the past 100 years history around the glove has taught us repeatedly that socialism/communism does not work in the real world. When do we learn the lesson?
Since when was business negotiations socialist or communist?
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You're cheering the fact that he also deleted ALL of the archives, basically ALL of the articles these journalists worked on for years? Some of those articles covered vital pieces of history for various cities that are now completely lost.
The articles written were the property of the company and as such belong to the owner to do with as he wished. I am sure the writers retained copies of their work if they wanted them . Vital pieces of history? What occurred that these articles are the sole recorded record of an event?
Back in the seventies we rewired machinery for Stanley Works to move to Asia. Along with many other industries moving South, it destroyed the already sinking "Hardware City" of New Britain Ct. They got sick of fighting the UAW machinists union so they left.
Yeah, they don't. They are not doing dangerous work, unless you call getting a papercut hazardous.
I don't blame him.
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