The Boardroom Went Quiet When My Mother’s Phone Rang

the scheduled vote was suspended indefinitely. Their lead negotiator, a smooth guy named Halpern with teeth too white to trust, tried telling me I was “letting sentiment interfere with shareholder value.”

I asked him how many plants Tekton had closed after making “community commitments” in the last ten years.

He said that was “a complicated metric.”

I continue reading …