Omaha Steve's Labor Group

Management has the option of welcoming the help of their cooperative unionized workforce or creating a resentful workforce and hostile workplace. Yes, this means that in negotiations, the owner must buy into an open book policy of management. When there are secrets there is mistrust and misuse. Kneecapping labor is never a sound practice. It is short-sighted and a harbinger of failure. Backing a union into a corner based on misinformation spells doom for any company seeking long term viability. Union mandates are inevitable and every clash with management must be resolved in the sunshine of honest bargaining. Progressivism is premised the idea that the best choices are those which bring the best outcome for all concerned.

At some point, management dared the union to go against them in a material fashion. Management or ownership or both disrespected the union and got what they should have expected. Apparently, some of our "liberal" justices have been breathing the rarified air of their ivory towers a bit too long.