Organizing
Running head : Actions That Employers Use to Discourage Employees from Joining Unions Name University Course Tutor Date Actions That Employers Use to Discourage Employees from Joining Unions The United State 's National Labor Relations Act (NLRA ) provides legislation that governs and provide for the rights of employees to form and join labor unions while at the same time providing an environment for collective dialogue between employees and employers (National Labor Relations Act , 2010 . The NLRA provides for the right to self-organization , to form , join or assist labor

organizations , to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing , and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection (National Labor Relations Act , 2010 . A critical amendment to the act in 1947 popularly referred to as the Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947 , provided loopholes where employers could `legally ' violate the right for the employees to either join or be actively involved in the activities of the labor organizations (Delpo Guerin , 2009 . Data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB ) point directly to the fact that there is significant evidence that employers violate workers rights to be unionized . It is also disheartening to note that some of the tactics employed by employers to deter workers from labor organizations fall within legal boundaries , while some tactics fall in the grey areas of the law , which are simply legal provisions that can not be explicitly interpreted or implemented . This will discuss some of the tactics...





