Fighting the Union in a "Union Friendly" Company

Abstract

This article examines the efforts of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) to organize the workers of the NCR Corporation after it had been acquired by AT&T. It documents extreme "union busting" mea sures by the corporation at the same time AT&T was engaged in a "part nership" with the union in the already unionized parts of the parent com pany. Three issues are analyzed from the case: (1) the failure of U.S. labor law to protect workers wishing to organize into unions; (2) impli cations for unions dealing with "union friendly" companies like AT&T; (3) implications for organizing strategy for unions. The article concludes with some thoughts on union organizing and the power relationship be tween unions and large employers in the United States today.

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