Labor Quiz: Union Busting

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Polling shows that more than half of all working Americans would like to be represented by a union. What percentage of employers hire consultants to help them defeat worker efforts to be unionized? Click here and you could be next week's winner of a labor music CD!

Last Week's Quiz:  Nearly 5,000 workers die as a result of workplace accidents every year.  How many die every year as a result of cancers and other illnesses brought about by their work?  Answer: 50,000 Americans die every year—an average of 137 a day—as a result of cancers and other illnesses brought about by their jobs, according to the AFL-CIO. - photo courtesy Jason Perlman/Flickr