Big Labor War on Secret Ballot Intensifying
President Biden flatly rejects the long-standing consensus that secret-ballot elections are, with few if any exceptions, far superior to “card checks”
Columnist Doug Bandow weighs in against the Card Check scam: “The real reason organized labor wants card check is that elections don’t guarantee the results that unions want — but that’s the nature of elections. You can’t always get what you want. For decades, labor organizers won only half the votes. Today, unions lose more than 40 percent of representation elections.”
President Biden flatly rejects the long-standing consensus that secret-ballot elections are, with few if any exceptions, far superior to “card checks”
Top officials of [...] unions have repeatedly tried to [...] effectively deny workers the opportunity to vote in secret-ballot elections...
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo wanted to reinstate the 1949 Joy Silk ruling, forcing "card checks" on employees.