Trends in Union Corporate Campaigns - US Chamber of Commerce

A “corporate campaign” is an attack by a union on the ability of a
company or industry to conduct its routine business. The objective
is to generate so much pressure on the “target” that it will give
in to union demands. This briefing book provides the reader with
an introduction to the corporate campaign and an overview of its
increasingly important role in U.S. labor relations.
Jarol B. Manheim is Professor of Media and Public Affairs, and of Political
Science, at The George Washington University, where he was the founding director
of the School of Media and Public Affairs. He has been described as one of the
world’s leading authorities on campaigns against business. Among his books
on the subject are The Death of a Thousand Cuts: Corporate Campaigns
and the Attack on the Corporation (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001),
Biz-War and the “Out-of-Power Elite”: The Progressive Left Attack on
the Corporation (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004), and Power Failure,
Power Surge: Union Pension Fund Activism and the Publicly Held
Corporation (HR Policy Association, 2005).
The United States Chamber of Commerce is the world’s
largest business federation, representing 3,000,000
businesses, 2,800 state and local chambers of commerce,
830 business associations, and 102 American Chambers
of Commerce in 87 countries.
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