Estados Unidos de América - Employers encourage workers not join unions (2013)

Because of the latitude given to employers under U.S. law to campaign against unionisation and the weakness of the protections against outright anti-union discrimination, a USD 4 billion union-busting industry has developed in the United States consisting of consultants who advise employers on tactics to employ during union organising campaigns to discourage and intimidate workers from exercising their rights to unionise. These outside consultants are hired by employers in more than 80% of all organising drives.

Studies have shown that in the vast majority of organising campaigns, employers require workers to attend group “captive audience” meetings as well as one-on-one meetings with their supervisors to hear anti-union propaganda—tactics which are permitted under current law despite their intimidating effect on workers. A recent academic study found that workers were required to attend captive audience meetings with top management in 89 per cent of all organising campaigns surveyed, and that a majority of employees were required to attend at least five of these meetings during the course of a campaign. In 66 per cent of the campaigns workers were required to meet alone with their supervisors at least weekly.

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