Bronfenbrenner opines

Kate Bronfenbrenner serves as director of labor education research at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In that position she advocates for significant changes in the federal labor laws. She reports rampant violations of worker's rights occur during organizing drives.  According to her sources, who often are the very union organizers who experience failure in trying to get workers to select union representation, worker intimidatiion is the cause of labor's membership decline. This, of course is an overly narrow and self-serving explanation. Her new opinion piece in the Providence Journal is typical.

Chamber cites bias in labor literature

The U. S. Chamber of Commerce has released a White Paper report which skewers the research methods and conclusions of Kate Bronfenbrenner and others claiming employer misconduct in representation proceedings suppresses unionization. The study criticizes Bronfenbrenner's reliance upon chief union organizers for assessing the campaign environment while ignoring employer advocates. The study does a particularly good job of using current NLRB data to correct the misstatements and conclusions of the pro-labor writings of Bronfenbrenner and others.