Question

In 2009, Mercury Marine, an outboard motor manufacturer, threatened to close their plant in Fond du Lac, WI and move to a nonunionized location in Oklahoma. This threat caused the union workers to vote to accept a contract with major concessions, including a 30% decrease in pay for newly hired workers and workers returning from layoff. This strategy could best be described as a:

Answer 1

The correct answer is: forcing strategy.

Step-by-step explanation:

A forcing strategy is used by employers through different coercive actions that disfavor workers. This is done to push employees to have a response on a specific matter usually when it comes to diminishing their compensations. A forcing strategy is a win-lose approach that does nothing more than promoting distrust among the work-frame.