What do you do when your boss says he needs to slash your wages by 23%, otherwise the business will go belly up? Worse, what do you say when he tells you there’s no guarantee these cuts will be enough to save it?
If you’re a non-union worker, you basically have two choices: (1) swallow your pride, accept the staggering reduction, go home and tell your wife to start looking for creative Spam recipes, or (2) quit your job and take your chances on finding a better one.
If you’re a union worker, there’s a third choice. Because you have a contract in place—one that covers wages, benefits and working conditions, ....