. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. On Compulsory Union Membership . . What role shall government play in assisting the nation's unions toward that stated objective of compulsory membership? That question, and that question alone, is at the heart of the major fight building over the proposed Carter Administration "reforms" of the National Labor Relations Act. When the rhetoric is stripped away, when the arguments on both sides are weighed, the primary purpose of the proposed "reforms" is to assist Big Labor in organizing workers and in promoting c
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. On Compulsory Union Membership . . What role shall government play in assisting the nation's unions toward that stated objective of compulsory membership? That question, and that question alone, is at the heart of the major fight building over the proposed Carter Administration "reforms" of the National Labor Relations Act. When the rhetoric is stripped away, when the arguments on both sides are weighed, the primary purpose of the proposed "reforms" is to assist Big Labor in organizing workers and in promoting compulsory union membership at a time when Big Labor finds itself representing an ever-declining proportion of the nation's work force. In considering the proposed reforms, the United States Congress must wonder, aloud, why it is that unions have found their percentage of representation of the work force in the nation slipping significantly in recent years, and how that might affect the pressure of organized labor for enactment of the proposed changes in existing law. It certainly must be difficult for anyone to believe that abuses by business and industry have been the major reason for the decline in union membership as a percentage of the work force. Through a system of compulsory dues, unions certainly have no shortage of funds for organizing efforts. One need only look to the excess funds unions always seem to have available to assist in financing the election campaigns of candidates whose views they share. It must be, therefore, that fewer and fewer workers care to be represented by unions, to be members of collective bargaining units, to pay compulsory union dues to finance other organizing elTorts and the campaigns of candidates for elective office when they, personally, might be actively supporting the Big Labor's candidate's opponent. In fairness, the present National Labor Relations Act does not always work perfectly. There have been some abuses by business and industr
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