ABSTRACT
Just as employers can play a role in preventing, detecting, remedying and eliminating workplace bullying, unions and union leaders can also take steps to do so. Concerted activity has traditionally led to the greatest protections and gains for working people in the United States. Specifically, concerted activity in the form of unionization has led to health care and pension protections for workers, safer working conditions, procedural due process, job protections and a decreased wage gap for female and minority workers. This chapter explores the role of traditional concerted activity and unions in protecting workers' dignity. Concerted activity in the labor relations process, or the union/labor movement, can potentially provide a solution through three different paths. Unions and concerted activity can help to prevent, detect and eliminate workplace bullying as early as the organizing phase. The union leadership attempted to prevent their own members from engaging in protected concerted activity.
