Union Truth: Former Union Organizer Speaks Out
With much talk from the unions about the need to pass labor reform, specifically the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a former union organizer has decided to stay silent no longer.
Kate Bronfenbrenner recently published "No Holds Barred: The Intensification of Employer Opposition to Organizing". AWF broke down several of her key points for the public in the below press release.
Former Union Organizer Speaks Out
New study by former union organizer sheds light on the real union agenda
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Recently, a new paper by former union organizer Kate Bronfenbrenner, “No Holds Barred: The Intensification of Employer Opposition to Organizing,”, illustrates that despite union’s attempts to skew data indicating employer misconduct, the majority of workers don’t want to join a union.
Unions intend to solve this problem by effectively eliminating secret-ballot elections, having the government impose contracts on newly organized workers, and continue to control failing multi-employer pensions with the Employee Free Choice Act.
• Only 9% of non-union workers want to join a union but 47% of union members believe that most workers want one.
• Bronfenbrenner confirms union organizers do not directly observe what happens in the workplace – they only hear second- and third-hand reports.
• Unions withdraw, or the NLRB dismisses, 50 percent of union allegations of threats, 57 percent of union harassment allegations, and 68 percent of claims of firings for supporting the union.
• Organized labor’s own analysis shows that employer misconduct rarely occurs and only a small minority of employers threatens, harasses, or fires pro-union workers.
• Card-check methods and snap elections are intended to prevent employers from having the opportunity to educate workers before they vote.
• Bronfenbrenner found that in states that unionizing elections allow card-check organizing for government employees, unions had a 100 percent win rate in card-check organizing campaigns.
“The fact that every state allowing chard-check has had a 100 percent union win rate, while the majority of workers don’t want to join unions is a precursor to what will happen if EFCA passes,” stated Brian Johnson, Executive Director of Alliance for Worker Freedom. “What’s worse, unions know that their members pensions are failing and forcing more companies to try and cover this burden will not help the situation.”
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