Hundreds of Foster Farms employees, upset about wages and working conditions, went on strike yesterday at the company's largest chicken plant in Livingston, California. Union leaders claimed that about 80 percent of the day shift stayed out and that much of the night shift would follow suit today. Even though the strike did not involve workers at other Foster Farms facilities, including processing plants in Turlock and Fresno, or its dairy operation, which sells milk, yogurt and ice cream products, Foster Farms has decided to close their Livingston, CA plant permanently, and move to Arkansas. An estimated 2,500 workers are expected to lose their jobs on a short notice, and the city is left in an economic disaster. Given the fact that Foster Farms is the largest private employer in Merced County, the Livingston plant closing story was largely covered by most TV stations and newspapers in Northern California. On the 6 oclock news, Chris Thomas (Moderator, Channel 10 Sacramento) bluntly asked her guests whether todays marketplace, with its deregulation and downsizing, can afford to reconcile economic and ethical behavior; and whether a big corporation like Foster Farms should be expected to do better than they are currently doing in Livingston.

Felix Harding (Union Representative at Foster Farms):

Managers at Foster Farms in Livingston keep telling us that most the things we ask them are too expensive, and that the company cannot afford them. In fact, the social projects we are requesting for employees are not that expensive.

From the above statement, we may conclude that Harding is:

A) Formulating a critique of the performance argument

B) Formulating a critique of the constraint argument.

C) Making the deontology argument.

D) Making the loyalty argument.

E) Making the expertise argument.