Trump voter "Nuh, uh. My taxes are slightly lower and if it weren't for all this Biden inflation I would be able to afford things!"

Ah but see, there's juuuuust enough left for the execs to still get their bonuses, and we wouldn't to deny them their bonuses lest they stop "creating jobs". And they really needed more corporate tax cuts, so we can't tell people not to vote against their own interests because then that's not in the company's interest.

tl;dr get fucked peasants

Not sure what a union would have done in this case. The problem is near term cost of inputs vs long term contracts with fixed revenue.

I'm not saying it would be bad for this to kick them into forming a union, only that it wouldn't have solved this problem unless the union had an education campaign to explain why excessive tariffs are bad.

Unfortunately a union after the fact does nothing to help the workers.

Unions are great for ensuring that the profit from their labour; is fairly distributed.

If the company is unprofitable; forming a union to squeeze blood from a stone is not helpful. It will just hasten the demise. These tariffs, as others have pointed out are probably making their fixed term contracts into money losers.....We don't have all the data, but it is quite likely.

And from a personal point of view, smaller companies tend to care more than big ones....I've worked in both. Being 1 of 5 is great, being 1 of 15,000 not so much.

And the union organizer's name? Albert Einstein.