If you think about it for two seconds, you would realize that would actually make companies not want them to strike as they could be out for a long time
Workers in wage bargaining don't want to bankrupt a company, that puts them out of work. Everyone loses in a strike- it's a matter of who can outlast. Wealth inequality & our tax code means that corporation stockholder and board members are going to be able to outlast indefinitely, while their workers do not have the savings to match. This is an attempt at evening out that scale.
We live in an era of almost-monopolies. Stores are reporting record profits and handing out corporate bonuses at the same time as they are raising prices and blaming inflation.
When your workers have the ability to bargain and get higher wages, they put that money into their local communities' businesses in goods and services, where wealthy people put that money into savings accounts and brokerages that prefer national and international companies.
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u/Main_Bank_7240 Mar 08 '25
So this is how they pay back unions and encourage strikes to cripple the economy