In this article, I want to take an historian’s long view on labor law reform. Here we have a federal law with the stated purpose, and the actual initial effect, of encouraging collective bargaining. Yet today the law, while still essentially the same on paper, functions as a bulwark of the “unionfree environment” that describes ninetenths of our private-sector economy. My aim is to identify the central process at work and, on that basis, to suggest a course of action against the hijacking of the labor law by the enemies of collective bargaining.
