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Okay, so can you explain how it's the union's fault that, over the past decade, the company lost market share, ran up mountains of debt, and produced declining sales? Is it the union's fault that the underlying business was poorly run?
Very simply, if sales go down with a union contract you have limited means to control costs from labor. You cant make pay cuts, you cant make layoffs, you cant break the contract...etc etc. A union that demands more in this environment isnt in it to provide job safety, they are there to create an us versus them mentality that eventually reaches past the profitability of the company.
Losing market share, etc isnt on the Union, but for the Union to continue to demand more when it plainly is not there to be had is naked greed.