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Prejudice Against Labor Unions and Effects on Membership

In: Labor and Employment Relations in a Globalized World

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  • Eul-Teo Lee

    (Kunsan National University)

  • Tuncay Guloglu

    (Cornell University)

Abstract

This chapter explores prejudice against labor unions by non-union members as one of reasons for the decline in union membership and workers’ avoidance to join a union. This is due to the fact that social changes with respect to the value of labor and movement have led workers to change their attitudes towards union participation and activities. Based on various theories of prejudice, this article suggests that prejudice against labor unions on the part of non-union members have been evoked through learning various negative effects of labor unions on a society. Particularly persistent global economies have been in recession, the unemployment rate has been increasing and a variety of mass media have reported social waste and damage brought forth by labor unions. As a result, non-union members have come to consider labor unions as socially irresponsible, and so they inevitably have prejudice against labor unions and avoid joining them. Also, this chapter explains cognitive process such as non-union member’s justifying their prejudice against labor unions based on social identity theory and the hypothesis of attitude similarity attraction. In this chapter, the practical implications of reducing prejudice against labor union are discussed.

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  • Eul-Teo Lee & Tuncay Guloglu, 2014. "Prejudice Against Labor Unions and Effects on Membership," Contributions to Economics, in: Toker Dereli & Y. Pinar Soykut-Sarica & Asli Şen-Taşbaşi (ed.), Labor and Employment Relations in a Globalized World, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 159-170, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-319-04349-4_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04349-4_7
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