Captive audience meetings are a key tool for bosses to destroy union drives. With last week’s outlawing of such meetings by the National Labor Relations Board, labor has a window to take advantage before Donald Trump scales back worker rights.
Pending cases could boost the potency of worker strikes, expand the scope of labor law protections, and make other changes that bolster worker and union power.
The labor bill includes a wish list years in the making that will affect virtually every worker in the state and could be the most significant bill in state history.
Over decades, a boutique of consultants, industrial psychologists, and specialist lawyers--spending an estimated $340 million a year--has played a significant role in subduing the labor movement, and has helped keep U.S. unions pinned down to this day.
Employers are using heavy-handed tactics to prevent workers from organizing, and U.S. labor union density is falling as a result.
Jennifer A. Abruzzo, NRLB General Counsel, issues a key memo stating that "NLRB case precedent, which has tolerated [mandatory anti-union] meetings, is at odds with fundamental labor-law principles." She urges the Board to take action.
We know the union-busters' playbook. But the players and their reach are less well known.
No Evil Foods created products like El Zapatista and Comrade Cluck, but workers say its conduct doesn’t live up to its leftist branding.
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