Union violence is a major problem that Congress must address. Typically union thugs target non-union workers to force them to join their forced-dues-paying ranks. But sometimes, as with the recent spat with SEIU union activists, the violence is targeted at each other.
Glacier Northwest Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 174 has been brought before the Supreme Court.
No union, but especially not one with multiple top officials convicted in federal court of accepting bribes and embezzling workers’ dues money, should be allowed to impose unionization on workers by colluding with company officials to bypass a secret ballot vote. That’s why it is critical that any state incentive package includes a condition that the decision over whether to unionize the proposed Ford-SK Innovation Western Tennessee plant be made with workers having the full protection of a federally supervised secret ballot vote, and absent any backroom deal between company and UAW officials.
Dennis Williams and the UAW provide another shiny example of why the PRO-Act endorsed by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi,…