scarmig, not that I disbelieve you, but can you provide citations to help me understand when and how often this occurs? Labor regulation is massively skewed to

scarmig, not that I disbelieve you, but can you provide citations to help me understand when and how often this occurs? Labor regulation is massively skewed toward the employer compared to any other developed country. I'm not interested in comparisons to other countries. My interest is in both sides playing on a level field. When, for example, the government is trying to prosecute Boeing for simply deciding to open a new plant in a non-union state so that it won't have to deal with the union [1], it's clear that the playing field is slanted. I'm not asking for businesses to have an upper hand, just that the situation be handled with as much fairness as possible. labor consultants known affectionately as "union busters" who spend their time and efforts intimidating employees. I've never encountered such a thing. My understanding is that this kind of thing disappeared decades ago (although these days I don't tend to work near unionized people, so may have missed something). But: how can you explain the insistence on the particulars of "card check", other than that the unions want to be able to intimidate workers into signing up (which they'd be able to do, since their votes wouldn't be secret)? Disclosure(s): I've had my parents tell me that we won't have very much to eat for a while, because my step-father is being forced to go out on a strike that he voted against. I've been forced to pay union dues myself, even though (as a temporary employee) I wasn't entitled to union benefits or representation. I've been forbidden from helping customers by a simple 1-minute effort, because only union workers are allowed to do that task (although the union workers were not doing their duty by performing that task). My employer had union protesters [2] fake a picketer being hit by a bus, those picketers claiming that justified their attacking the bus with bats and pipes. [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-20/boeing-should-move-2nd-787-line-to-washington-u-s-board-says.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-20/boeing-should-move-... [2] The protest was simply that one of the building contractors my employer was using for a renovation was not a union shop; there was no concrete grievance. And the bus that was attacked was carrying the non-union workers to keep them safe from the union animals.