Union busting

Union-busting is a range of concerted efforts and strategies that aim at disrupting or preventing the creation of employees’ unions in organizations, mainly by their employers as well as politicians. David Bacon explores the evolution of union busting sophisticated strategies citing a case in Labour Department in California. With the perception that the department is mandated to implement labour and wage regulations to protect the rights of the employees, an official named Richard Sawyer loses his job. The Republican politicians together with the employers make an attempt to ban one of the most active and well established union campaign group referred to as Justice for Janitors (Bacon, 1996). With regard to section 8 (a) (2), such an attempt…

Labor unions can use a variety of different ways in which to challenge the issues related to racism, sexual-orientation, and women’s rights through the strategies of diversity and self-organizing. Diversity is a crucial factor in allowing women, gays, lesbians, and racial minorities find a common cause and achieve solidarity and political unity. In this manner, it is important to understand the awareness of diversity as a way to achieve a larger coalition of labor union activists that can rely…

The hostile takeover and chapter 11 failure of Eastern Airlines was just the icing on the cake for people who didn’t exactly love Mr. Lorenzo. At the time Eastern was the third largest carrier in the United States (Bernstein, A). Union busting was the avenue to create animosity between labor and management, which Mr. Lorenzo used to his advantage (Weiss, 2017). Due to the animosity, Eastern Airlines was forced into Chapter 11 and employees went on strike. Employees refused to return to work…

The first repercussion of the strike was the destruction of PATCO. At the beginning of the strike, a federal court impounded PATCO’s $3.5 million strike fund and another federal judge imposed fines totaling $4.75 million on the union.On AUgust fourth judge Thomas C. Platt in New York fined PATCO $100,000 per hour for defying a 1970 injunction against striking. The President of the AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland expressed outrage at Reagan, who was described as ‘union busting’ by labor leaders. It was…

National Right to Work Committee (NRTW) says that labor unions are “outdated and no longer beneficial to their members, American workers as a whole, or the larger society”. They go on to encourage union members to drop their memberships, and for members (and agency fee payers) to cancel their dues payments. Of course, the NRTW’s rhetoric ignores the fact that union members earn significantly more than their non-union counterparts (BLS, p. 2; Yates, p. 40), are protected by collective bargaining…

On the other hand Verizon has retaliated to the strike by having “thousands of nonunion employees who have been trained as fill-ins, and they will be reassigning employees from elsewhere in the U.S. and other units in the company ( Domonoske)”. By doing this Verizon has taken some power away from the union because there are people who are willing to do the job without complaints and they are taking money and jobs away from the people who are on…

Unions exist in almost every industry from manufacturing and construction to banking and government. Their objective is to represent workers by acting as a bridge between management and employees. Among other important issues, unions facilitate negotiations for increased wages, benefits, and improved working conditions. While a union’s historical purpose is to offer redress for employer violations of employees’ civil liberties and moral rights the tactics that unions have taken in doing so also…

The Great Backlash was a surge in conservatism that arrived onto the national stage in response to the liberal environment of the 1960s. The backlash continues today and mobilizes voters with controversial social issues that are attached to pro-business economic policies, i.e. cultural anger is used to achieve economic gains. By focusing on issues like abortion, the Republican party can create financial benefits for the affluent -like tax cuts and union busting- because the single issue voters…

by the Belgian Congo. Once Lumumba brought the Soviet Union into the situation by receiving their aid and weapons in an attempt to stabilize the government, it gave the United States the opinion that it was moving down a communist path. The United States’ fear of Communism infecting one of their suppliers of raw materials is evident…

the German Wehrmacht’s lighting warfare, and the Soviet Union enjoying the Molotov Ribbentrop pact, or as its commonly known its treaty of non-aggression with Germany, all hope is lost in Europe. However, the situation quickly changed in the following years. By 1940 Great Britain still hasn’t crumbled under the German pressure and remained as strong as ever. Hitler quickly theorized the only reason why Britain hasn’t fall was that Britain was anticipating the arrival of the Soviet Union’s…