Everyone taking an honest look at the current system for organizing a union in America must recognize the system is broken. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), passed in 1935, sought to introduce “industrial democracy” into an economy racked by depression. Workers were given a mechanism to create their own economic power. For more than two generations the NLRA model succeeded. Working class folks were able to negotiate directly with employers and to no one’s surprise, more of the employers’ profits were distributed to the people producing the profits. The American middle class was born as a direct result of the right to form a union. More »