Four: If none of these union-busting tactics work, your employer might just break the law.
Starbucks recently fired more than twenty union leaders. Amazon fired a union leader for missing work even though he was on leave to care for a COVID stricken family member. U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in over 40% of all union election campaigns.
I'm sorry, I just have to pause for a second here. 40% of the time? Really? If I broke the law 40% of the time, I'd be in jail quicker than you can say "Pinkerton!"
Are companies allowed to skirt the law like this? No! But labor laws take a long time to enforce if they're enforced at all. And the worst that can happen is a corporation has to rehire a worker who it illegally fired and provide back pay. No wonder some companies decide that breaking the law is cheaper than following it. It's simply a "cost of doing business" for a giant corporation like Amazon.
But here's some good news: A bill called "The PRO Act" would strengthen protections for union organizers and make many kinds of "union avoidance" illegal. Call your lawmakers and ask them to support it today.
They won't just be on the right side of history. They'll be on the right side of public opinion. A majority of Americans, including 77% of young people, support the right to join a union. Workers at Starbucks and Amazon have refused to be intimidated and have started to unionize. All over the country, American workers are growing wise to corporate union-busting tricks.
Big corporations are fighting dirty to keep their workers from organizing and they're still losing. Imagine what could happen if they had to fight fair.
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