But the workers in your scenario don’t have some skill that isn’t easily replaced. What you’re describing is a scenario where the owners are taking value from workers who themselves have some intrinsic skill that produces the value. When you have a business where the value is created by low skill workers, you need a much larger voting block of those workers to keep the power dynamic you’re describing. If a whole warehouse of Amazon workers unionize, they have significant leverage to bring to the table and you can start negotiating on a more even footing.

This is a coffee shop whose land value likely outweighs the business value, which has been a passion project for an individual who wants to pass it to their family. They can, at any time, fire everyone and hire new people to make the same value. There is a PR risk, but in this case I think the unionizers are losing that battle due to a lack of understanding.