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Many consultants have given up union busting and quietly gone about building more honorable careers for themselves, sort of like former Nazis moving to America and setting up flower shops. Not I. At the time I made my conversion, I was struggling to overcome alcoholism. In my pursuit of recovery I …

In 1975 I left the employ of consulting firms and set out on my own. Over the next eight years I ran a series of one-man union-busting enterprises I called by such disingenuous names as Employee Synthesis Program and Human Resources Institute, and I struck it rich. But by 1983 I had become hopeless…

To stop a union proponent - a "pusher," in the anti-union lexicon - the buster will go anywhere, not just to the lunch room, but into the bedroom if necessary .The buster not only is a terrorist; he is also a spy. My team and I routinely pried into workers' police records, personnel files, credit h…

There are many forms of union busting. Some labor consultants, and attorneys take on unions that already represent a work force, squeezing negotiators at the bargaining table, forcing workers out on strike, harassing union officers. My career took another path. I refined the Sheridan specialty call…

It's very unpredictable. If we read our history, we know that back in Debs' time the railroads were one of the biggest industries in the country. They had a lot of shops: people worked as blacksmiths, machinists, whatever. The company cut their pay so much a day. They didn't do anything about it. S…