Thread regarding Target Corp. layoffs

This is such a weak take. Unionization at corporate level won’t fix Target’s lack of competitiveness.

You should be the first to be laid off. No one wants a union. Target would crush any attempt at labor organization anyways.

A union would be great if it was 1918. Start your own company with union employees and see how much fun you have.

@OP you are correct, a union would be great. Just extremely unlikely to ever happen if we are being real, at least not before the store level is unionized.

Let's be serious, the company will perform exactly the same. Same number of stores, sales etc.
The problem is too many people.
Many team members believe they are important cogs, they can be let go and nobody will notice. Productivity is way down. Target needed to tighten it's belt!

@OP having a union won’t reduce the number of layoffs. It would at most impact WHO gets laid off, favoring tenure over performance. I’d rather trust my performance.

If we try to unionize, we will be laid off. It’s hard to charge a company with unfair labor practices when the dems have control, there is no way anything will be enforced with Trump in office and layoffs already happening.

@a5 You actually ART headcount to be cut - exec leaders set the strategy, sr. leaders build the action plan and YOU, you carry out your orders/tasks. It's as simple as that. Yes, you have impact, you build strategy and execute but you are executing someone else's plan. Exec leaders DO have a contract that they negotiate with clauses that address severance. If you want that as a part of your package then work your way up the food chain, stand out, get promoted.

@a6 yeah so his contract shouldn’t have been extended like it was a few years ago. He was good then, but recently he’s been sh-t. Don’t deny it.

@a3 Hate on BC but he righted the ship after the Canada disaster and had many years with no layoffs. He was pretty well liked up until the last couple years.

@a4 You're right, it's not a factory, but we just got treated like disposable parts. That "professional" label means nothing against "at-will" employment, which is just a nice way of saying "you can be fired at any time for any reason." A union for corporate employees isn't about assembly lines; it's about getting a binding contract. That contract would give us a legal right to negotiate severance (not just accept a packet), demand clear and fair layoff procedures based on more than a manager's whim, and have a real voice in things that matter to us, like pay transparency and "return to office" mandates. We're not "headcount" to be cut; we're the people who build the company, and it's time we had the power to prove it.

This is not a factory job, get real!

@a1 yeah okay BC aka Brian Cornell. You got us into this mess.

lol, no.