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Sportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new name (wisconsinexaminer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works

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[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But they also got rid of the union in this process as well, presumably, which would cost them money by reducing how much wages they could steal from workers.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Well, except defrauding the finding that you pay back wages and reinstate (with union) the employees you fired probably means you still gotta reinstate them and allow them to keep a union. And now you have a very hostile workforce who will all but ensure any new hires are pulled into the union. So really just a colossal mistake as far as I can tell.