Dirty Tactics That Business Uses To Prevent Labor Union Growth

U.S, labor union membership continued to decline in 2006, and fell by 326,000 in the last year. Major reasons onclude union busting activity by employers and factory closings by employers to export the jobs to labor cheap nations.

Among public sector workers, there is a 36.2% union membership rate, which includes many benefits such as a credit union, good retirement, job protection and health care benefits. But among private sector workers only a mere 7.4% are union represented. These workers may face unfair job terminations or low wages or unsafe working conditions, including fear of voicing critical views about unsafe working conditions to the management.

Businesses employ a number of dirty tactics and threats to prevent union growth including:

A statistic that 30% will fire any pro-union workers despite good job performance.

49% of employers even threaten to close a worksite if becomes unionized, but in reality only a mere 2% actually follow through on this threat.

51% of employers will use some form bribbery or favortism to prevent workers from forming a union.

A high 81% of businesses employ expensive union-busting organizations to stomp out any union organizing efforts.

91% of businesses organize antiunion propaganda meeting events. and spread lies to keep workers living in poverty and away from safer working conditions, healthcare plans, retirement benefits or better pay.

Union membership continues to shrink in this unfair and one-sided system that seeks to keep the working class enslaved to the wealthy class who own the means of production and make themselves billionaires in a system in which working people are mere pawns in their greedy search for more and more wealth. Oil companies record profits of $75,000 a minute and drug company executives earn $200 million dollar retirement benefits while working people struggle since 1996 for even a small minimum wage increase to keep up with the inflation of energy prices, rent, food and health care.