<p><pre><code> "Union avoidance consultants, often hired as independent contractors
which allows firms to circumvent federal reporting requirements, often
work with multiple clients at once, sometimes parachuting into a
worksite for just a few weeks or days to train managers and hold
"educational" meetings with workers.
Tracking the union avoidance firms behind anti-union campaigns is
intentionally made difficult by firms that subcontract out work to
other firms that hire independent contractors to avoid federal
reporting requirements laid out by the Department of Labor and shield
themselves from public scrutiny."
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It really does seem that in this day and age, the "independent contractor" classification is just a legal car wash. At some point contractors have to become an auxiliary appendage to the corporation, but I don't know what point that is. I do know it's another symptom of a dysfunctional system where many things just don't 'feel' right.
How is "union avoidance" even a service that can be offered by companies? The listed examples of their business practices sound downright perverse to me