Sources: 1 and 3-8: Kate Bronfenbrenner, "No Holds Barred: The Intensification of Employer Opposition to Organizing," May 20, 2009. A study of Chicago area NLRB representation elections by University of Illinois-Chicago professors Chirag Mehta and Nik Theodore reported similar findings. Mehta and Theodore found that workers were fired illegally during 30 percent of organizing campaigns, employers force workers to attend one-on-one anti-union meetings with supervisors during 91 percent of NLRB representation election campaigns, and employers hire consultants or union-busters to help them fight 82 percent of union organizing drives. See Mehta and Theodore, “Undermining the Right to Organize: Employer Behavior During Union Representation Campaigns,” report for American Rights at Work, December 2005. 2. John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer, "Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns," Center for Economic Policy Research report, January 2007, http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=775&Itemid=8 9. National Labor Relations Board annual report, fiscal year 2007, Table 4. 10. John-Paul Ferguson, “The Eyes of the Needles: A Sequential Model of Union Organizing Drives, 1999–2004” (March 25, 2008), unpublished working paper. 11-12: Peter D. Hart Research Associates, survey for the AFL-CIO, January 2009. 13. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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