Chapotraphouse

You ever see that really stupid Baki scene where Baki is surrounded by like five guards pointing guns at him but he's supposed to be the one in charge and actually has them (the people pointing guns at him at point blank range) hostage?

This is that but real; convincing workers to have a temporary union and pretending they're having their arms twisted to make small, meaningless concessions so the workers don't unionize for real and force major concessions; and this as a temporary measure to give them breathing room to figure out how to replace or downsize them.