They can choose not to join a union and not to have a voice. It is a choice. And benefits have decreased as well. Just look at what has happened to health-care benefits throughout the country as well as at the Lab. Yet salaries for managers have sky rocketed, both at the Laboratory and in industry.
Some workers think it is their turn and they want a voice.
So yes, workers at the Lab need to inform themselves. But they should look at all the facts, not just the misinformation put out by anti-union activists and management. Then they should make an informed vote.