Obnoxiousness is a universal human trait. But for unions, it’s a tool of persuasion. Large employers, with good reason, are wary. A new paper from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “Hardball: The Tactics of Union Corporate Campaigns,” summarizes organized labor’s frequently aggressive, predatory shakedown tactics in the search to win concessions from an employer. These campaigns, which seek to discredit a targeted firm’s brand name, involve extensive advance groundwork, for they can and often do last for years. Unions and their allies revel in testing the legal limits of protest, while raising the company’s business costs. Undeterred by reality, certain lawmakers, led by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., want to repeal safeguards against such behavior.
Corporate campaigns are no stranger to Union Corruption Update (see here, here and here). This brand of labor activism took off during Seventies, a period when organized labor … Read More ➡
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from National Legal & Policy Center http://nlpc.org/2018/11/20/new-report-describes-dirty-union-corporate-campaign-tactics/
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