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The $1.7 Billion Industry to Stop Your Union
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 Sept. 8, 2026 | WORKERS' RIGHTS | If there’s a signature American business, it might just be union busting. Bosses in this country have long stood out for their violent hatred of labor organizing. Other nations have had strikes, but few others have had labor conflicts escalate to an outright shooting war, or company thugs burning and machine-gunning a union tent encampment filled with women and children. As the robber baron Jay Gould once boasted, “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Today, labor-management relations thankfully do not typically involve exchanges of gunfire. ... [Instead, a] $1.7 billion industry of attorneys and consultants exists to stamp out workers' attempts to secure their legally protected bargaining rights. Learn more at LaborLab, a workers’ rights watchdog that just released new tools to help union organizers and workers understand these union-busting firms: who they are, what they do, and, above all, how much they cost. VIA THE AMERICAN PROSPECT. PHOTO/AP IMAGES
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