I've worked in a number of non-union shops albeit years ago. In my experience, it takes pretty extreme conditions to get people to commit part of their income to a union. After all, they do cost money, unions do. My daughter works for a non-union steel plant. They have always made sure, they paid competitive wages, slightly ahead of the curve, offered competitive benefits,slighly ahead of the curve and have never had anyone try and set up a union there. Some companies just understand, it's cheaper to treat your employees right than it is to deal with a union. B&H clearly don't get it.
But, that being said, sometimes it honestly is a case of there just is no more money to be had. The employer is struggling to stay afloat, and he just can't do any more for his/her employees. In which case he should be telling his/her employees to be looking for other jobs anyway. A company that close to the line should not be seen as a long term employment solution.
Either way, B&H employees who can do so should be looking for other jobs. For me, when I see these kinds of things, it's either a boss who wants to take way more money out of the company than he's worth, or a a failing company way too close to insolvency. In either case, you're going to need another job, soon.
A neighbour used to work for Walmart. Her problem with them wasn't really anything about working conditions per se, but the part of the working conditions governed by the complete lack of respect her managers had for their employees. The employees in her were willing to devote part of theiir income to pay a thug to come in and say "back of creep" when management got ugly. People won't do that unless they feel bullied.
Last edited by normhead; 03-27-2017 at 07:06 AM.