We'll Close! Plant Closings, Plant-Closing Threats, Union Organizing And NAFTA

Moving to Mexico and other threats

Plant-closing threats come in a variety of guises. Veiled and verbal threats are the most common, which is not surprising given that direct unambiguous threats to close the plant in response to union organizing activity are clearly in violation of the law. From 1993 to 1995, approximately 40 percent of employers made veiled verbal threats in both elections and withdrawals. Fifteen percent of the employers in the withdrawals and 22 percent of the employers in the election campaigns made specific unambiguous verbal threats. At least 13 percent of the employers made veiled written threats in both elections and withdrawals. Six percent of the employers in the withdrawals and 10 percent of the employers in the elections made specific unambiguous written threats.

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The threats continue

Employer opposition to unions does not stop after a union wins a recognition election. In the 174 instances from 1993 to 1995 where the union either won the election or won voluntary recognition, only 57 percent had won a first contract by September 1996.

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here's the whole thing:
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0397.04.html

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