Because of him giving so much money to Republican candidates, especially ones people who appear to be unable to do the job, people banned his Johnsonville Bratfest in protest. It is the consumer and community really showing Johnsonville’s owner what they think what he likes to support. The boycott had nothing to do with what the company produces or that it continued to pay its workers after the plant burned down. “Because customers, employees, investors and shareholders, suppliers, governments, communities, and others have a stake in or claim on some aspect of a company’s product, operations, markets, industry, and outcomes, they are known as stakeholders” (Ferrell et al., p 36). Stakeholders show how they feel about a company by buying their products if they like them or not buying their products if they do not like them. Clearly, the stakeholders that were a part of the boycott were against Ralph Stayer supporting Republicans by donating money to their …show more content…
So I would have to say that there was not insurance to physically pay the workers, just the insurance that provided coverage to the employees in the form of dental or health. However, under vacation and time off on glassdoor.com I found a section that had volunteer time off for Johnsonville employees so I am sure that form of time off was used to pay workers to some extent (Glassdoor, 2016). In fact, I could not find anything on where the money came from to pay the workers, just that they were being paid. I assume that the money came from what was produced at the other factories and since workers from Watertown were working there the profit was dispersed to them as well. Also, since volunteer community work took place, the government, such as the state, provided some money for the workers possibly. Insurance that would have been available would have been what was provided by Johnsonville to employees since they were still employed with the company. This would include “comprehensive and unparalleled rewards, including paid time off, profit sharing, medical, dental, vision, life and other insurance types, and much more” (Johnsonville,