Where¹s the Goddamn Outrage!
When it Comes to National Labor Law We Have a Corporate Crime Wave
By Dave Lindorff
A new study of 1004 union organizing drives conducted by the
director of labor education research at Cornell University¹s School of
Industrial and Labor Relations has found that two-third of the companies
involved were violating US labor law by holding one-on-one interrogations of
workers, by threatening workers about their union support, by firing union
organizers or using half a dozen other illegal tactics to defeat
unionization campaigns.
Prof. Kate Bronfenbrenner, author of a study titled "No Holds
Barred: The Intensification of Employer Opposition ot Organizing", says that
these illegal tactics by employers have been used to drive union
representation at American companies down to only 12.4 percent from a level
of 22 percent just 30 years ago.
If a similar level of illegal behavior by companies was reported
dealing with, say, false billing of customers, deceptive reports to
shareholders or violation of environmental laws, there would be a clamor for
action in Congress, and among the public, but so far, there is no outcry
over this wholesale violation of the nation¹s labor laws.
One reason may be because nobody except the unions themselves
and the companies breaking the law would know about this particular
corporate crime wave...
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