Employers routinely fire workers and use other illegal tactics to thwart workers’ efforts to unionize
Source: Adapted from Figure C in Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock, Julia Wolfe, Ben Zipperer, Gordon Lafer, and Lola Loustaunau, Unlawful, Economic Policy Institute, December 2019. Data are from the authors’ analysis of National Labor Relations Board election data for calendar years 2016–2017 and ULP filings from fiscal years 2015–2018.