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Labor unions and Taft-Hartley.

Publication: Synthesis/Regeneration
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Labor unions and Taft-Hartley.(Thinking Economically)

Article Excerpt
Polls show that upwards of 50% of working people say they'd be interested in joining a labor union, but only 12% of America's workforce is unionized. Even acknowledging that some of those expressing an interest in joining up were fooling themselves and misleading the pollster, there is still a huge number of working people out there who would like to become union members but either don't quite know how to proceed or, frankly, are too frightened to make their feelings known, fearing management retaliation.

This discrepancy (between the number of those who'd like to join and actual membership) reflects two brutal truths: management has the statutory ability to limit organized labor's power; and companies are still dedicated to the point of obsession to keeping non-union workers away from union organizers.

While ensuring that the workforce remains unrepresented...

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