New York Farmworkers Seek to Challenge ‘Card Check’ & Uproot UFW Union Bosses
Farmworkers fight UFW union argument that New York labor law lets union bosses trap workers forever
Despite a veto threat from President Obama, the House of Representatives rejected a Obama-backed, pro-big labor amendmentto the FAA Reauthorization bill. In July 2010, the National Mediation Board — without the consent of Congress — decided that unions could organize airline and railroad workers if a majority of voting workers supported unionization, rather than a majority of all workers in the proposed bargaining unit — as had long been the case. This means that unions can be certified as the sole bargaining agents under the Railway Labor Act with support from a minority of workers.
For example, if a company has 100 workers but only 80 turn out to vote in the election, it would only take 41 pro-union votes for the union to organize the company’s workers. The amendment passed in the House would overturn the Mediation Board’s appeasement of the union bosses.
Sixteen Republicans voted with Big Labor. The bill now goes to the Senate.
Farmworkers fight UFW union argument that New York labor law lets union bosses trap workers forever
“Donald Trump won his remarkable bid to return to the White House last year by appealing to the sense of fairness and economic aspirations of millions of Americans, not by pandering to power-hungry and cynical union bosses.”
A key part of the Biden program to redefine tens of millions of independent workers as “employees” so they could be corralled into a union was his Labor Department’s overturning of independent-contractor standards adopted during the first Trump Administration.