How To Bring Back Unions? Give Unionized Companies A Tax Cut

If there is one thing that will make a huge difference in the fight for worker rights, it's unions. Yet unions are under attack. Employers try to bust unions and prevent unionization. They do everything they can to make sure their workforce is not unionized, and if it is, to discourage workers from joining the union.

So what if we could change that picture just a little? What if employers had an incentive to encourage or at least not prevent unionization? What if employers were motivated to have a unionized workforce?

But how, you ask?

Corporations just got a huge tax cut, and if Democrats manage to take back Congress, the corporate tax cuts will be one of the first things to be rolled back. But I would suggest offering corporations the opportunity to keep their tax cuts if their non-management workforce is 95% unionized.

Right now, the companies that got the tax cuts have pretty much taken their money and run. They have moved jobs overseas, cut jobs, given raises and bonuses to C-level employees, and have done little or nothing to help their workers. Unions have asked employers to show what they did with their tax cut money, but have been met with crickets.

If employers had a tax break for a 95% unionized workforce, then they would have an incentive to stop their anti-union activities. They would also have more of an incentive to keep jobs in the U.S.

Will this result in fair pay, better pro-employee policies, and better benefits for American workers? I think it would help slowly increase the unionization in the U.S., which will be good for workers. Maybe with a tax break, it will be good for employers too.

Maybe a tax break could help stop or slow the war on workers in this country.