Reply #8: Exactly. If a company acts responsibly then perhaps [View All]

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employees will not see the need for a union.

Realistically, given current regulation and incentives, it is tough to expect a company to do anything but try and avoid unions. It isn't because executives are evil (although many are), but rather they are more or less compelled to make decisions that maximize profit based on cost/benefit and risk assessment. WalMart is running up against where its behavioiur causes too much reputational damage to compesate for the extra profit, but ultimately what they are doing is amoral.

That's why politicians need to make better rules.

Doesn't this all seem like a process the US went through about 100 years ago? I guess history does repeat itself.