February 2, 2007

The mislabeled "Employee Free Choice Act" would do away with secret ballot elections in union certifications, instead installing unions as exclusive representatives once they proffer a majority of authorization cards signed by workers individually in settings where a 250-lb. Teamster may be looking over their shoulders ("You got a problem with that?") Comments Larry Lindsey in the W$J:

The final proof that this bill is about union power, and not worker choice, is revealed by its treatment of the flip side of unionization: decertification elections. These are secret ballot elections in which workers get to decide that they have had enough of the union. So under the Employee Free Choice Act can a majority of workers decertify the union by signing a card? Not on your life. Here unions want the chance to engage in a campaign to give workers both sides of the story -- and maybe do a better job of representing them -- before the union's fate is decided, by a secret-ballot vote.