Foundation Slams Biden-Harris NLRB Rule Overturning Protections on Workers’ Right to Vote in Secret on Unions

The Biden-appointed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) majority recently announced a 3-1 final rule overturning the protections of the Board’s 2020 Election Protection Rule (EPR). The EPR secures workers’ right to have a secret ballot election on whether to remove a union in their workplace in situations where union bosses use coercive tactics to seize or remain in power.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation submitted comments in 2020 recommending reforms to the NLRB that were later adopted in the EPR. Foundation staff attorneys help workers dissatisfied with union bosses’ “representation” obtain secret ballot votes to “decertify”, or remove, unions in dozens of cases per year.

National Right to Work Foundation Vice President Patrick Semmens issued the following statement on the final rule:

“The Biden-Harris NLRB’s grossly misnamed ‘Fair Choice-Employee Voice’ rule expands union boss power by denying actual workers both a choice and a voice. In overturning the common-sense Election Protection Rule, this Board majority has again abandoned its mandate to be a neutral arbiter of federal labor law in order to assist union organizers in trapping workers in forced-dues union ranks against their will.

“Over the past few years, Foundation staff attorneys have often utilized the 2020 reforms to ensure workers could remove unwanted unions that were opposed by a majority of employees. Under the new anti-election rule, many of those employees would still be trapped in union ranks opposed by a majority of their coworkers – something that is directly contrary to the fundamental premise of the National Labor Relations Act that the NLRB is supposed to enforce.

“Despite this setback for the rights of independent-minded employees, we encourage workers to continue to reach out to the Foundation for free legal aid to explore all their legal options for challenging unwanted union bosses at their workplace.”

NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION

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