What would happen if megas had a union brew up on their hands ?

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    How do you think everyone in the C class respond? You think they would stay in business?
     
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    What's a C class?
     
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    CEO , CFO anyone that needs that c letter to feel special
     
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    It's normally called C suite
     
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    You may have coined a new phrase. I like it.
    I doubt if the C class would care very much. They'd grab their golden parachutes, cash in their stock options, their severance bonus, and bail out. Most of them have no ownership in the companies, they're just hired help. When things get bad they run. They're laughing as they run, too.
    Those downstream from the C class would have to deal with the gigantic goat rope that unionization on that scale would bring.
     
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    They would fight it just like all good business people would. I want no part of unions myself. I support corporate profits overall. Profits are wonderful things , unions are not such wonderful things.
     
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    I wonder who'd emerge as the new Jimmy Hoffa? A movement of that kind needs a charismatic leader. For as long as he lasts, anyway.
     
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    They would stay in business. Unless they went union then it's would be downhill from then on. Usually companies would fire the whole terminal and then just rehire new people.
     
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    That's fine if you don't have a lot of employees . I've seen it happen. For the megas you're talking thousands of employees. Getting all those guys to vote in a union might be like trying to herd cats.
     
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    Might be? There's a reason they aren't already unionized, and its more than "union busting" techniques.