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Employers in the United States have had the legal right to permanently replace economic strikers since the Supreme Court's 1937 decision in NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. [31] Meanwhile, employers began to demand more subtle and sophisticated union busting tactics, and so the field called "preventive labor relations" was born. [32]
The Hobbs act makes extortion a federal crime, but under the United States Supreme Court's 1973 Enmons decision (United States v. Enmons), the actions of union officials in organizing strikes and other united acts of workers are exempt from Hobbs Act prosecutions, as long as the labor dispute is over pay for work performed. This exemption does ...
History of illegal union firings in the United States. Union busting in the United States dates at least to the 19th century, when a rapid expansion in factories and manufacturing capabilities caused a migration of workers from agricultural work to the mining, manufacturing and transportation industries. Conditions were often unsafe, women ...
Union organizer Frank Little was pulled from his bed and lynched in 1917 because of his union activities.. Historically, violence against unions has included attacks by detective and guard agencies, such as the Pinkertons, Baldwin Felts, Burns, or Thiel detective agencies; citizens groups, such as the Citizens' Alliance; company guards; police; national guard; or even the military.
It may be true, for the moment, that "Starbucks is the poster child of union-busting in the United States," in the words of Starbucks Workers United official Gary Bonadonna Jr. But the fight is ...
Spying by companies on union activities has been illegal in the United States since the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. However, non-union monitoring of employee activities while at work is perfectly legal and, according to the American Management Association, nearly 80% of major US companies actively monitor their employees. [1] [2]
The movement is growing so fast it's prompting Starbucks to engage in what critics call an unprecedented union-busting campaign. Jasper Booth-Hodges lives five minutes away from the union store in ...
Workers at the German auto supplier's plant on Haggerty Road in Plymouth Township voted against union representation this week, in a campaign marked by numerous accusations of union busting.