EPI: Majority Sign-Up Doesn’t Result in Coercion

by Seth Michaels, Aug 20, 2009

A new study shows that the majority sign-up process is not susceptible to intimidation and that such claims just don’t hold water. Like so many corporate attacks against the Employee Free Choice Act, this myth doesn’t stand up to reality. 

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report is based on a study of four states by Robert Bruno of the University of Illinois, who noted that across more than 1,000 campaigns that involved some 34,000 workers, there was not one finding of union intimidation or coercion. A total of five complaints were filed, of which zero were found to have merit. 

Meanwhile, management intimidation of employees who want to form a union is all too common. In 2007 alone, more than 29,000 workers were found to have been the victims of corporate abuses during the attempt to form a union. 

The majority sign-up process works, and it allows workers who want to form unions to do so without fear of their bosses. A freer, fairer process for forming unions is critical to building a stronger economy, and that’s why we need to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

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