Summary. For decades, when companies learned their employees were considering unionizing, they followed a familiar playbook: do everything possible to fight and frustrate the unionization effort. Leaders often take a union drive personally, and see unions as a threat, failing to...

Much of corporate America has failed to connect the dots on two of the biggest economic stories of the last year: a tight labor market and rising worker organizing. After more than 40 years of declining union membership, low unemployment has given workers more power, and there has been a tremendous upswing in the number of workers asking to hold union elections. Together, these trends signal a sea change in the relationship workers have with their employers. Companies that ignore these trends are missing an opportunity to chart a new, more sustainable and equitable version of capitalism. And if they don’t reverse course, their myopic view of union organizing will have significant ramifications not only for the future of our economy, but also our democracy.

Let’s look at each of these trends and then examine the picture that they paint together.

First, we have the surprising persistence of a tight labor market. We ended the year with an unemployment rate below 4%. Workers — including low-wage workers — have more opportunity than they’ve had in decades to quit and find better jobs, wages, and working conditions if they are unhappy. Throughout the so-called “great resignation,” many workers did...

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