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After passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, the first nationally known union busting agency was Labor Relations Associates of Chicago, Inc. (LRA) founded in 1939 by Nathan Shefferman, who later in 1961 wrote The Man in the Middle, a guide to union busting, and has been considered the 'founding father' of the modern union avoidance industry. [31]
Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or weaken the power of trade unions or their attempts to grow ... these organizations started to coalesce ...
And Taft–Hartley led to the "union-busting" that started in the late 1960s and continues today. It started when a new "profession" of labor consultants began to convince employers that they could violate the [pro-labor 1935] Wagner Act, fire workers at will, fire them deliberately for exercising their legal rights, and nothing would happen.
The number of union members nationwide increased from 2016 to 2017, and some states saw union growth for the first time in several years or decades. [196] Nearly half a million workers went on strike in 2018 and 2019, the largest numbers in three decades. [197] Union growth in 2017 was primarily millennial workers.
Earlier this year, what would have been an historic unionization effort among Amazon workers at a factory in Bessemer, Alabama, failed after the company achieved enough "no" votes to defeat the ...
Union organizers across the United States accused the company of a strong union-busting campaign during the Workers United campaign during 2021 and 2022. [71] In early February, Starbucks fired multiple leaders of a Memphis, Tennessee , store's unionization efforts for breaking company store access policy, which the union described as an act of ...
Starbucks Union official Gary Bonadonna Jr. That region became the epicenter of a movement that has now held successful union votes at 289 of the company's roughly 9,000 locations.
The big story: When Florida lawmakers placed new restrictions on public sector unions this spring, teachers were among the groups to call the effort “union busting.” As the provisions take ...