Or they lay off everyone and open another factory outside of the US to get away from the unions.
Deere has factories, offices, and other facilities around the world.
That is exactly the point.
He also pays how many folks’ salary?
Sounds like the employees are trying to hurt the company. I mean, unless tractors magic out the back of the building they walked out of?
Just like OSHA. Establish a standard, any standard, and that is the new minimum requirement everyone sees how close they can get to/for how cheap/little effort and still meet.
When wages rise profits fall…amazingly you are correct about what is going to happen. How many jobs would they fill without these guys going on strike for more money vs. normal operations? They’d hire more people and keep pumping out product! Instead, if the union “wins” for the worker you’ll see few hires (if any) and less product to the consumer at the current price. Economics isn’t hard.
Yep, half the threads around here eventually mention your tractor isn’t made in the US. Why is that? It’s cheaper to build it somewhere else then pay crazy shipping costs to put it on a boat, then pay more shipping costs to get it to a store than it is to make it in the US. Not all the blame is on unions for that but a case could be made that most of it is.
That would be zero.