Unions have become increasingly aggressive in their efforts to organize non-union employees across the country. Many corporations feel as if they have had their backs pushed against an economic wall beyond which they cannot move.
Now Cintas Corporation, based in Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against labor unions, alleging that the unions engaged in racketeering. Cintas filed suit in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District in New York against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, UNITE HERE, and Change to Win. The company has alleged that those unions engaged in extortion.
Cintas operates more than 400 facilities in the United States and Canada, including eleven manufacturing plants and employs more than 34,000 workers.
If citizens want Corporate America to remain vital and not export jobs to factories in other countries, they cannot permit unions to drive up labor costs so that corporate bottom lines sink into a sea of red ink. It would be a shame if the 34,000 workers of Cintas found themselves replaced by foreign workers, all because several unions forced the company to find a way to reduce costs.
