Labor leaders point to an irony in the Freedom Foundation's canvas – when labor organizers knock on workers' doors as part of a unionization drive, company officials and conservatives frequently complain that "union thugs" are intimidating workers and violating their privacy.
In recent years, protesters have descended on Walmart stores on Black Friday as part of a unionization movement by Walmart employees.
But rather than the anticipated groundswell of support for postdoc unionization, Morningstar told Next Wave, UHP has received inquiries from postdocs interested in unionization at "a couple of other campuses," including Stony Brook University in New York state, where a drive to organize postdocs is part of a larger unionization effort on the campus.
And they may be part of the reason unionization has been on the decline in recent years.
+ Anonymous sources have revealed that Jeff Koons Chelseaa studio has laid off 14 of its night workers, perhaps in part due to rumors of unionization amongst the crew.
These actions may be part of the reason why unionization has declined in the U.S. over the past few decades, a phenomenon Walmart officials use in the PowerPoint to further their argument.
How does the suppression of unionization in other parts of the world affect workers in the United States?
The California Nurses Association, an unusually militant union that is seeking to expand nationwide, said it dispatched organizers to Ohio because in its view the unionization efforts were part of a sweetheart deal.
We are aware of the fact that some other aspects of the two labor markets, such as different rates of unionization or firms' size, may also be potentially important in explaining part of the differences in self-employment rates and complement our explanation.
Thus, Argentina has a degree of unionization approaching 40 percent, whereas the Dominican Republic has less than 10 percent trade-union membership.
