Reckoning with company unions: the case of Thompson Products, 1934-1964. (Labor History and Industrial Relations: a Symposium)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October, 1989 by Jacoby, Sanford M.
RECKONING WITH COMPANY UNIONS: THE CASE OF THOMPSON PRODUCTS, 1934-1964
COMPANY unions were a controversial personnel and union-avoidance strategy of American employers during the 1920s and 1930s. Yet, the strategy came to be viewed as a failure because most company unions either were taken over by national unions or legally disestablished. Still, one should be careful not to consign company unions to the dustbin of 1930s labor history, since a surprising number of them not only pulled through that stormy decade but continued to function during the calmer years after World War II and in some cases still do so today. So-called independent local unions (ILUs) survived the 1930s at a variety of companies, large and small. In 1983 they had 479,000 members, about...
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