Morgan Lewis lawyers – high-paid union-busting thugs
By Betsey Piette posted on February 16, 2021
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bosses hired Pinkerton Agency goon squads to infiltrate unions, break strikes and intimidate workers who were trying to organize.
Graphic: supportamazonworkers.org
Today’s hired union-busting thugs are more likely to be high-paid lawyers tasked with turning labor laws intended to protect workers into weapons against union organizing. In the 21st century, bosses pay an estimated $340 million a year to a handful of law firms to do the dirty work to keep their companies union-free.
One particularly nefarious anti-labor firm is Morgan Lewis & Bockius in 2020 the fourth largest U.S. law firm with 31 offices, over 2,200 lawyers and nearly $2.3 billion in annual revenue. Morgan Lewis’s website boasts of the firm’s ability to help companies “avoid union penetration and strategically shape bargaining units to minimize potential un