Of Interest to both HR and International Business

This article from the New York Times deals with the efforts of workers, many of them immigrants, to organize labor unions in poultry processing plants.

Union Organizers at Poultry Plants in South Find Newly Sympathetic Ears

For the HR class -- as we discussed last week, there is a rationale for a low-cost HR strategy, such as in cases where jobs are low-skill and there's a lot of price pressure on the company (to deliver a low-cost product). What you want to think through is just how far should that strategy be followed? In other words, what are the ethical implications here?

Your thoughts?