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Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or weaken the power of trade unions or their ... In 1980, the author of Confessions of a Union Buster, ...
Union busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, worker organizing, and strike actions. [1]
Union representatives had stayed out of the assembled crowd to avoid making the unions liable for any violent actions, but they requested an urgent meeting with company management inside the plant. In a scene that writer Jonathan Rosenblum likened to an Old West showdown, as both sides watched, two Phelps Dodge managers walked out the gate and ...
The failure of the PATCO strike helped reshape the American labor movement. Union density within the United States consistently declined starting in the 1980s. The PATCO strike demonstrated that the federal government would act as a strike breaker, making labor unions more hesitant to use strikes as a tool.
1980-82 Ashtabula nurses' strike, 570-day strike by nurses at the Ashtabula General Hospital on Ohio, United States, one of the longest nurses' strikes in American history. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 1980-82 Costa Rica Institute of Technology stikes , series of strikes by students at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology demanding better access to ...
The big story: When Florida lawmakers placed new restrictions on public sector unions this spring, teachers were among the groups to call the effort “union busting.” As the provisions take ...
Initially local, the boycott started in the late 1960s and continued through the 1970s, coinciding with a labor strike at the company's brewery in 1977. The strike ended the following year in failure for the union, which Coors forced to dissolve. The boycott, however, lasted until the mid-1980s, when it was more or less ended.
The movement is growing so fast it's prompting Starbucks to engage in what critics call an unprecedented union-busting campaign. Jasper Booth-Hodges lives five minutes away from the union store in ...