KCPW (NPR affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah), March 14, 2007 Wednesday

KCPW (NPR affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah)
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Midday Utah
http://www.kcpw.org/article/3167

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American corporate executives spend several hundred million dollars a year on "union avoidance" lawyers and consultants to keep their companies union free. That's according to a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor, which also claims that the AFL-CIO's chief organizer sees a growing interest in the U.S. for union representation. On the phone to talk about the state of unions today, their possible rise in the future, and the Employee Free Choice Act is Kate Bronfenbrenner, a Professor and Director of Labor Education Research at Cornell University. She is a former organizer and business agent with the United Woodcutters Association in Mississippi, and her books include Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies.