A $340 million industry of “union avoidance” consultants helps employers exploit the weaknesses of federal labor law to deny workers the right to collective bargaining. Over the past five years, employers using union avoidance consultants have included FedEx, Bed Bath & Beyond, and LabCorp, among others.
 
Take a look at the chart below to see how much major corporations are spending to bust unions throughout our country.

• Forcing employees to attend daily anti-union meetings where pro-union workers have no right to present alternative views and can be fired on the spot if they ask a question.    
• Plastering the workplace with anti-union posters, banners, and looping video ads—and denying pro-union employees access to any of these media.  
• Instructing managers to tell employees that there’s a good chance they will lose their jobs if they vote to unionize.        
• Having supervisors hold multiple one-on-one talks with each of their employees, stressing why it would be bad for them to vote in a union.           
• Having managers tell employees that pro-union workers are “the enemy within.”  
• Telling supervisors to grill subordinates about their views on unionization, effectively destroying the principle of a secret ballot.