I am married to a trade union worker who gets half a paycheck taken in cuts so believe me, I am no rah-rah cheerleader. My point is that workers have the right to say the U Word without threats of being fired and attitudes like John Mackey's, Target's and Walmart's go more along the lines of Koch union-busting. Whatever the Forbes list says does not change facts. If there is a need to even mention "union," there is obviously a problem within big enough to do so and workers should not be penalized for it.
"The more costs that go to the union, the less go to other areas."---> "If you go union, you won't get your profit gainsharing." Heard that one before. Maybe you have too.
Whole Foods Market does the same exact thing with what sounds like the same exact daunting "OOOooo unions just want your money, they're just a business" video. When there was a threat back in 2009/2010 of unions being able to solicit easier (through trickery!), we had to take a second mandatory "class" and sign papers under a thinly veiled threat, "You took the class, so you know about the big bad unions, and you signed The Paper..." They also make a HUGE example of the one store that successfully unionized as being such a colossal disaster clusterwhut so as to even think about the U Word, you're obviously deranged and want to swindle all the other team members out of their money too.
All smoking/non-smoking hateritas aside, it's an argument no one here is ever going to win – "unemployed LOSER??" Now, in these times. How's the smokey air up there?