http://www.laborradio.org/node/6977By Doug Cunningham
SEIU President Andy Stern says polls show 57 percent of American workers want a union, yet the percentage of unionized jobs is declining. To understand what’s happening, Stern says, you have to get a fix on what happens in union organizing campaigns.
: “So why? There is a reason. It’s because 91 percent of companies require their workers to go to anti-union meetings. Eighty percent of people train their supervisors not to educate, but to intimidate their workers. Fifty percent threaten to shut down their jobs. And if that’s not enough, 31 percent of the employes in campaigns today fire – fire – union workers.”
That stark reality, Stern says, is why workers need the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform to really get back the legal rights to organize unions – without employer retribution.