The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Highlight

That, it turns out, was the easy part. As most anti-union companies do, Tudor’s refused to recognize the union voluntarily and instead demanded an official NLRB election. Ballots for that were scheduled to be mailed out at the end of December. That gave the company a solid month to threaten and cajole against the union, which they did with zeal. Several Tudor’s employees told me that some of their coworkers were offered cell phones or promotions in exchange for voting against the union. A mysterious new management guy, with suspiciously clean hands, showed up in the store, pulling workers into individual meetings and handing out discipline. Everyone assumed he was a hired outside union buster.