[QUOTE=Kougar018;154816]Competing companies are encouraged to work together when it comes to things like safety. But I doubt that they’re allowed to coordinate things like employee wages and make secret agreements about hiring and firing. Apple and Google were busted in an Antitrust case for agreeing to not hire each other’s employees.
That Apple and Google case is conspiring to restrain competition which violates antitrust laws.
Boat companies agreeing to take a similar approach to temporary lay offs is not price fixing or an unlawful restraint on competition.