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US Employers Spend Over $1.5 Billion a Year to Fight Union Efforts, Study Finds
MaeveA new report finds that U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion a year to fight labor unions, hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers to prevent worker organizing.
The report, published jointly by the Economic Policy Institute and LaborLab on Wednesday, estimates that employers spend roughly $1.7 billion annually on union avoidance consultants and law firms to prevent workers “from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions.”
Though unionization in the U.S. has grown to its highest levels in 15 years, nonunion workers face mounting obstacles to joining a union. Over the past few decades, large law firms have developed business specialization in fighting unionization efforts, the report notes. This includes providing union avoidance consultants to employers to prevent union elections, push workers to vote against unions, and stall collective bargaining agreements.
Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/51132
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Which indicates they believe that unions are comprised of workers that are worth more than $1.5B.
There are about 160 million Americans working for wages or salary. So $1.5 billion is less than $10 per worker… a bargain for the capital class.
TiredTigerI wonder how much they spend on bargaining against unionized workers. I also wonder how much more those non-union workers would be making if that money had been paid to them as wages instead of spent on consultants.
That’s 1.5% of Elon musk’s soon to be net worth. Ya’ll cry about unions when the target it obvious.
Someone, get off your ass and solve it.
No, he’s your American problem, not mine.
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This is why everything is so expensive; so they can use our money against us.
You know it!