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by atwood22 1429 days ago
Depends how hard it is to get another job. I doubt many people are particularly attached to a job at Chipotle. Forcing the store to shut down is more power than the average Chipotle worker has.
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Either you or I (or both) are misunderstanding each other’s comment.

My point was exactly that. At a store by store level, the workers have much less power than Chipotle. Even if they vote to unionize the store one at a time, Chipotle still wins if chipotle choose to close the store since it’s less costly for them to open a new store than it is for the workers to find a new job.

My point is that getting a new job may actually be easy (given the current unemployment rate), so it could still be worth unionizing even if you know they will close the location.