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Responding to Union Rhetoric: The Reality of the American Workplace

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A series of U.S. Chamber of Commerce white papers

For several years, organized labor has embarked on a campaign to advance its legislative agenda using messages that demonize employers and pillory U.S. labor laws and those responsible for implementing and enforcing them. This series of papers will examine organized labor's rhetoric and provide an alternative perspective.

Union Studies on Employer Coercion Lack Credibility and Integrity

Supporters of legislation to overhaul our nation's labor laws frequently justify such sweeping changes on various "studies" and "analyses" alleging that employers regularly break the law and engage in nefarious conduct with impunity during union organizing campaigns. This paper examines several key reports relied upon by organized labor and demonstrates how they fall short concluding that they cannot be relied on as the basis for legislative change.

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The Union Representation Process Under the National Labor Relations Act: Maintaining Employee Free Choice for over 70 Years

This paper explores the union organizing and recognition process under the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"), beginning with a brief discussion of the history of the Act, and how Congress sought to balance the competing rights of employers in a free market economy with the rights of employees who want union representation. The paper describes how this process works today and how the law protects employee rights in choosing to be represented, or not, by a union. As demonstrated in the text, this process is carefully designed, tested by time, and produces an accurate measure of employee sentiment regarding union representation. It should not be displaced.

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Is Unionization the Ticket to the Middle Class? The Real Economic Effects of Labor Unions

This paper discusses why unions are not the solution to improving the prosperity of the American workers through an analysis of the unions' macroeconomic effects on the economy.

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The Truth About American Workers: They are Satisfied, Respected, and Benefiting from Productivity Gains

This paper explores organized labor's assertion that workers are worse off today than they have been in the past and offer a perspective based on opinion polls, economic statistics and other data.

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