Tens of thousands of violations are never reported, and the backlog at the NLRB continues to grow. One reason for the growing lawlessness is that companies increasingly employ union-busting law firms and consultants to advise them on how to violate worker rights. Consider Jean Aliza, a worker at King David Center in West Palm Beach, who helped lead a successful effort of workers to gain a union in August 1994. The NLRB ruled that his rights were violated. But in 1999, five years later, Jean Aliza and other fired union supporters still did not have their jobs back because of appeals in the courts.
Management has the time to do whatever they want.
Or take the steelworkers at Oregon Steel in Pueblo, Colorado. The company was pushing them to take forced overtime. When workers asked the company to get some relief, they were told the company couldn't find qualified workers in Colorado. After the workers ended their strike, Oregon Steel refused to take them back. A judge found the company guilty of interference, coercion and bad-faith bargaining and ordered the workers reinstated.