Unions Try to Force 'Card Check' Through NLRB

Unions Try to Force 'Card Check' Through NLRB...The unions want the Obama administration and Congress to allow them to enroll new workers through “card check,” a process that supplants organizing elections and could put an end to the secret ballot in such cases. So far, the Democrats have not been able to get it through Congress. So they’re going the administrative route..This means trying to do it through the NLRB by regulatory fiat. As a first step, the agency has just announced it will go ahead with lawsuits against the states of Arizona and South Dakota because they passed, by citizen initiative, constitutional amendments that require secret ballot elections to form unions..Card check is popular with the union bosses looking for increased political power and increased dues money because it’s an open process that lets organizers know who’s on board and who’s not..The number of people joining unions, as percentage of the total workforce, is down considerably from where it was at its peak in the 1950s. In fact, it’s at a 70 year low

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