NPR Marketplace, July 18, 2011, Monday

NPR Marketplace

July 18, 2011, Monday

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Talks start over union elections
By Nancy Marshall Genzer


Kate Bronfenbrenner is a labor expert at Cornell University. She says employers often create disputes with unions to delay these elections. She says they use that time to convince workers to vote no.

Kate Bronfenbrenner: If you do not streamline and have the elections happen as soon as possible, workers are going to give up.