In the 1950s, workers punished by their employers for exercising the right to organize numbered in the hundreds each year. By 1969, the number was more than 6,000. Workers do not have the right to bargain . Employers can spend years stalling the negotiation of a contract with frivolous appeals and deliberate delays. We do not have the right to strike .
Employers can permanently replace striking workers without penalty.
To get their jobs back, often the striking workers' only recourse is to go to court. Companies can drag these cases out for years with delays and appeals. U.S. labor laws give employers a chokehold on unions, making it nearly impossible to organize and represent workers. The report also pointed out that in the U.S., unlike other developed nations, workers cannot participate in secondary boycotts, an effective way to build solidarity. None of these findings is news to us.