Busting the union busters
Given workers’ interest in forming unions and the clear advantages of unionization, why don’t these 60 million nonunion workers have a union yet? The fact remains that the primary U.S. labor law protecting workers’ organizing and bargaining rights—the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)—is too weak and outdated to fully protect and support worker organizing. There are no civil monetary penalties against employers that break the law and violate workers’ rights by firing workers for supporting a union or that engage in other illegal retaliation. And the law gives employers too much ability to interfere when workers choose to organize a union.