NLRB rules that any union busting triggers automatic union recognition

Biden’s photocopier-kickers will give American workers the unions they desperately desire.

Tonight (September 6) at 7pm, I’ll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger:

https://lfla.org/calendar/category/aloud/

On September 12 at 7pm, I’ll be at Toronto’s Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation:

https://anotherstory.ca/events/29283

American support for unions is at its highest level in generations, from 70% (general population) to 88% (Millenials) — and yet, American unionization rates are pathetic.

That’s about to change.

The National Labor Relations Board just handed down a landmark ruling — the Cemex case — that “brought worker rights back from the dead.”

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-bidens-nlrb-brings-workers-rights-back/

At issue in Cemex was what the NLRB should do about employers that violate labor law during union drives. For decades, even the most flagrantly illegal union-busting was met with a wrist-slap. For example, if a boss threatened or fired an…