Landon Industries Is Considering a Merger with Lake Industries

Landon Industries is considering a merger with Lake Industries.Landon offers its employees competitive salaries and generous benefit packages,but salaries at Lake are below the industry average,and Lake's benefit packages is much lower than Landon's.Not surprisingly,the employees at Landon are concerned that a merger with Lake would cause their benefits to decline.The CEO of Landon thinks that the best way to overcome the employees' resistance to the merger is through education and communication,but the CEO of Lake wants to force all employees in the newly merged companies to accept the changes.Which of the following facts would MOST strongly support the Landon CEO's argument?

A) The terms of the merger include the guarantee that Lake employees with outstanding benefit packages get to keep them in the merged company.
B) The shareholders of Landon support the merger.
C) Any savings that result from reducing benefits will be noted in a report one year after the merger occurs.
D) The recent economic downturn means people are having a harder time finding new jobs.
E) Lake employees advance up the hierarchy faster than employees in most other companies in the industry.