SEIU’s Andy Stern: Most Workers Want A Union, Employers Illegally Block Them

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/6977

By Doug Cunningham

SEIU President Andy Stern says polls show 57 percent of American workers want a union, yet the percentage of unionized jobs is declining. To understand what’s happening, Stern says, you have to get a fix on what happens in union organizing campaigns.

: “So why? There is a reason. It’s because 91 percent of companies require their workers to go to anti-union meetings. Eighty percent of people train their supervisors not to educate, but to intimidate their workers. Fifty percent threaten to shut down their jobs. And if that’s not enough, 31 percent of the employes in campaigns today fire – fire – union workers.”

That stark reality, Stern says, is why workers need the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform to really get back the legal rights to organize unions – without employer retribution.

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1. I listen to WIN's podcast every day. It's basically the only labor news I'm exposed to all day

which is stunning.

I can hear Wall Street news every time I turn around, but I have to actively seek out labor news.

[Omaha Steve]

2. Welcome to our forum

I'll try over the next few days to repost some labor sites for info.