Access to personal data: Neutrality agreements often require the company to provide the union with personal data about employees, including where workers and their family members live. Armed with a list of the names and addresses of each employee provided by the company, union officials can conduct home visits to urge employees to sign union authorization cards. Although the number of people employed has more than doubled since the mid-1950s, the number of union members has even decreased by more than one million. However, trade unions remain a powerful political force due to the rise of more active unions in the public sector. Until now, there has been no clear line separating legitimate neutrality agreements/provisions from those that infringed on workers` rights and are therefore prohibited by federal labour law. However, this is expected to change, since on 4 September, the General Counsel (GC) of the NLRB, Peter Robb, published a guide to help employers in the organisation of the Union (mmo of neutrality) which sets out the parameters of a legitimate and illegal “neutrality”. This is an important development that is part of a new direction that the NLRB will take when it asks such questions. Employers are often pressured to enter into neutrality agreements through the gathering of trade unionists, threats or large-scale “corporate campaigns”. Some employers are pressured to enter into neutrality agreements by other companies that act at the request of union officials. A neutrality agreement itself may require an employer to impose the neutrality agreement on other companies with which it is linked.
Across the country, organized work uses political influence to push for public policies that impose trade unionism on workers. According to the note, neutrality agreements that negotiate terms of employment on the merits are illegal. In addition, the memo states that Dana Corp.`s board wrongly decided that pre-recognition agreements on conditions of employment were illegal only if they contained a full agreement. The fact that authorization cards are not a reliable indicator of workers` mood shows several studies showing that unions lose the most elections, even though a small majority of workers sign authorization cards. The unions, which seem to conclude that their own record leads in part to the loss of members, have put pressure on companies to remain silent on all the facts relevant to the formation of trade unions as a top priority. Neutrality agreements are an insult and an injustice to workers. This is a desperate attempt by trade unions to use their political power to support their weakened wealth.