The Biden Administration Just Made Organizing a Union Exponentially Easier

[justaprogressive]

Unions are hot right now, but you wouldn’t know it from the historically puny percentage of workers who are members. The news is full of high-profile organizing drives at Amazon and Starbucks, and in food service, retail, and nonprofits; strikes or possible strikes by autoworkers, Hollywood writers and actors, and Las Vegas hospitality workers; and President Joe Biden’s historic visit to striking workers on the picket lines in Detroit. Public support for unions is at an all-time high, and a majority of American workers say they would join a union if they could.

Despite all this activity and enthusiasm, though, the percentage of workers who are union members has continued to decline, as it has for decades. At the labor movement’s peak strength in the mid-1950s, about a third of non-farm workers were unionized. That number fell slowly through the 1960s and then rapidly starting in the 70s, to a low of just 10.1 percent in 2022.

One big reason for the huge disparity is an antiquated labor law regime that corporate interests have successfully rigged against workers, making it easy-peasy for employers to kill workers’ organizing campaigns.
But at the end of August, the National Labor Relations Board, which has a 3–1 Democratic majority thanks to President Biden’s nominations, announced two party-line actions that should eliminate a common union-busting technique. These changes make the current moment the best time in decades to form a union, both from the point of view of workers who want a voice at their own workplaces and in terms of workers’ collective power to broadly improve pay and working conditions, reduce inequality, and build a functioning democracy.

[link:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/biden-administration-union-strikes-nlrb-win.html|

[Bluethroughu]

1. This is great news for the working people of the United States.

This works.

You mess with the workers, you get a union.

[Magoo48]

2. Yahooooooooo Union Strong

solidarity.

[70sEraVet]

3. Workers also need to be protected from anti-union Republican politicians !!

Am thinking of the antics of Bob Corker, who involved himself (lied) in the union vote at the Chattanooga Volkswagon plant, when he was Tennessee's US Senator.

In 2014, Corker, a long-time opponent of unions in Tennessee,[176] tried to influence the ballot election of blue-collar workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant whether to allow the United Auto Workers to represent them.[177]

On the first day of the three-day election, Corker said that he "had conversations" and "based on those am assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new mid-size SUV here in Chattanooga."[177] Corker's public statement went counter to statements by Volkswagen officials in the lead-up to the vote that the outcome of the vote would not affect the determination of whether the SUV would be made in Chattanooga or at the Puebla, Mexico, plant.[177] National Labor Relations Board expert Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt of Indiana University Bloomington said that Corker's remarks were "shocking" and an attempt to intimidate workers into voting against UAW representation.[177] The UAW was dealt a "stinging defeat" after a majority of employees at the Volkswagen plant voted against joining the union.[178]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Corker

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4. K/R

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5. Good news

Thank you.

[FemDemERA]

6. Awesome news!!

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7. Fantastic. K&R