Employee Engagement and Labor Relations; Organizations that are worried about unionization should ask themselves: Are our employees engaged?
Synopsis: Gallup offers insights into a perennially controversial subject: why employees are more or less likely to form unions in their workplaces. This is a particularly hot topic right now as pending legislation before the U.S. Congress aims to make it easier for employees to organize. Gallup’s experience and research offer insights into a perennially controversial subject for executives: why employees are more or less likely to form unions in their workplaces. This is a particularly hot topic right now as pending legislation before the U.S. Congress — the Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 — aims to make it easier for employees to organize even as public support for union membership seems to be waning. Through its poll, Gallup has researched opinions on unions for more than seven decades. In addition to studying opinions from the general public and the U.S. working population, Gallup consults with more than 500 organizations in more than 70 industries — unionized, non-unionized, p
