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Costco only does this shit as a union busting effort btw.
I mean… is that union busting? I thought I read the union threatened to strike. Costco raised wages to advert a strike. Isn’t that just unions working as intended?
I'm not sure if the exact details, but based on what you're saying, that's a union busting technique. You strike for recognition of the union and to bring the company back to the table to negotiate the contract. If a company is raising wages in response to a strike that's generally an attempt by the company to show that they will "take care of you" without the union contract. Anything the company does to "help" in response to worker action other than adding it as a concession in the contract is an attempt to avoid having a concession in the contract.
It's absolutely not, lol. Like, I have no problem demonizing the worst companies, but we should be less critical of the better options. Unless you want to create a grocery and retail store chain and distribution network out of nothing...?
Grocery stores have some good actors with employee owned and coops.
costco being anti union is news to me. especially since they are very loudly not dropping their dei program.
Literally every corporation that has ever existed—or ever will—is anti-union.
there's anti union as in "we think they're a nuisance but we are tolerating them" and anti union as in "we are going to do everything in our power, legally and otherwise to make sure a union does not form or actively work to break the union that is in existence now", companies like amazon and walmart and starbucks. if costco is anti union they are definitely not the second from what I've seen.
Costco is the latter but it's a grocery store so their mechanisms are limited. Here's a Costco union busting just a few days ago: https://dailyiowan.com/2025/03/30/workers-accuse-coralville-costco-of-union-busting/
Also you should accept that every company with a union wants it gone and is trying to find ways to kill it. Hire more staff to non-union positions, shrink union positions, delay contract negotiations, close unionized shops preferentially, buy off union leadership with perks/collaborationism. Many a petite bourgeoisie has shuttered their union shop citing financial problems only to reopen a few months later, suddenly union-free. And of course, slowly whittling away union sentiment and pushing a decert.