Today, my good friend Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Committee, has an excellent article on NRO, discussing the latest legislative move by Big Labor and its puppets in Congress to rig the law in its favor.
The National Labor Relations Act (which should have been declared unconstitutional in 1937 and still is today) sets up a one-sided procedure for elections to decide whether a union will become the exclusive bargaining representative for all workers in a “bargaining unit.” There is no reason why union representation should be a matter of majority rule at all, but put that aside. The election process is stacked against employers and workers who don’t want a union, but still the labor bosses lose about half of such elections.
So now they want the law changed to allow the government to certify a union just on the basis of cards signed by workers. Union militants have a strong proclivity for harassing and intimidating people into signing such cards. The bill is sponsored by (surprise!!) Ted Kennedy and it’s called “The Employee Free Choice Act.” Quite an Orwellian perversion of the English language.
