How are labor laws skewed in favor of corporations (such as IBM) over the employee?
They have high priced lawyers that have subverted labor law in favor of the corporations. They have used labor law cases and sympathetic labor board members to turn labor law against the employees. They use their power, money and influence to run roughshod over workers. Most present day labor policies are derived from the NLRB decisions on the multitude of cases brought before the NLRB, between unions and management of a company. These are disputes, over a large list of reasons for filing an Unfair Labor Practice or other reasons, between labor and management. Many are only significant to the particular company or union and do not affect the whole USA. For example, a union organizer gets fired for “misconduct” during an organizing campaign at a particular company. The union files a ULP (Unfair Labor Practice) and the case goes to an NLRB appointed administrative judge. The judge decides in the union’s favor, and the company appeals to the NLRB labor board. The NLRB also decides in favo