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Broken Promises
October 2007
This report reveals how Verizon uses a low-road business model to interfere with its employees’ rights to form unions, putting good jobs and quality service at risk.
Download the report (PDF: 195 KB)
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The Labor Day List: Partnerships that Work
August 2007
The 2007 Labor Day List features partnerships between successful employers and their employees’ unions that both meet the needs and rights of workers and fulfill business objectives. The practices of the employers we profile buck the current “race to the bottom” trend and eschew hostile labor-management relations. These innovative employers demonstrate there are alternative models which fulfill the needs of their shareholders, employees, and valued customers.
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Fact Over Fiction: Opposition to Card Check Doesn’t Add Up
March 2006
Findings from this new survey of workers’ opinions on union and employer coercion during card check campaigns and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections reveal that claims of union pressure in card check campaigns are grossly exaggerated.
Download the issue brief (PDF: 4 pages, 204 KB)
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Undermining the Right to Organize:
Employer Behavior During Union Representation Campaigns
December 2005
Findings from this new report reveal that a majority of employers aggressively use both legal and illegal anti-union tactics during union representation elections, which impedes workers’ ability to form unions.
Download the report (PDF: 35 pages, 688 KB)
View a one-page fact sheet (PDF: 451 KB)
Download a half-page flyer (PDF: 503 KB)
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WAL-MART: Rolling Back Workers’ Wages,
Rights, and the American Dream
November 2005
This report offers a comprehensive examination of the company’s abysmal labor standards, including an investigation into Wal-Mart’s unapologetic, systematic manner of aggressively interfering with its employees’ democratic right to form unions as a method to address their mistreatment. The study also demonstrates how Wal-Martization is eroding middle-class standards for workers in the grocery industry.
Download the report (PDF: 40 pages, 674 KB)
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Free and Fair? How Labor Law Fails U.S. Democratic Election Standards
June 2005
The report investigates how current union election procedures measure up to U.S. democratic standards. In spite of the presence of secret ballots, the report concludes that union representation elections fall alarmingly short of living up to the most fundamental tenets of democracy.
Download the report (PDF: 38 pages, 409 KB)
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