Here's Where Anti-Union Gets You

Without unions workers are loaded down with more and more work...productivity and profits go up while the labor pool is slashed and wages stagnate.

Why companies aren't hiring more workers

They don't have to.

Think back to 2007. Maybe one person in your office answered the customer phone calls and dealt with the e-mail inquiries, while someone else handled the walk-in customers. But then the recession hit and one of those people was laid off, while the other one started doing both jobs. That one person is still handling the dual load.

That's happening all over the country. Worker productivity has soared in recent years as employees have been asked to take on more work -- and have been willing to do so because the alternative was likely the unemployment line.