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What Ifs? The Sad Tale of Darlington Mills

Posted On: Jul 23, 2014

July 23, 2014 | NLRA | What if your employer threatened to close down your workplace unless the employees voted for the candidates your employer supported? Most people would say that the right to vote is our most precious right and threatening to take away that right must violate the law. But what if the "candidate" your employer opposed were a union, and what if your employer threatened to shut down the company if the employees voted for a union? And what if the employees screwed up their courage, despite the threat, and voted to unionize even though the employer was the largest employer in a small town? The 15th article in the Judicial Amendment Project series on the history of the National Labor Relations Act continues here.