In the post-war period, White continued to vocally oppose unionization of the steel industry.
Union officials and employees say management has interrogated them, put them under surveillance, offered incentives to employees to oppose unionization, and even threatened physical violence.
"I don't think you can say the foundation opposed unionization," she said.
FedEx says that the union push is an anomaly and that the majority of the drivers are happy and oppose unionization.
Labor scholar James A. Gross says Weir was prepared to use violence to oppose unionization at his plants.
Yale opposes unionization by its graduate students.
"Would you oppose unionization of your department?"
Management, however, opposes unionization, worrying that it would raise costs and reduce managerial flexibility.
"Our position isn't that we oppose unionization," said Eric Rabe, the vice president for media relations at Verizon.
This book opposed aggressive unionization and supported economic planning to raise general quality of life.