What to Do When Your Union Contract Is Voted Down

Like stumbling across a yeti or flying saucer, I was experiencing the seemingly impossible: a conversation between HR executives was warming the depths of my heart and giving me hope for the future. It was December 2022, and I was attending a convening of company executives and labor leaders hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. A line of corporate bigwigs from long-unionized Fortune 500 companies were heatedly voicing their exasperation over the new…