For private-sector labor unions that nationwide have lost nearly 2 million members in the last decade (more than 260,000 of those in Michigan) it has long been a priority to get their membership numbers (and dues revenue) back up by changing the law in their favor. Plan A was the Employee Free Choice Act and its “card-check” rule, which would allow unions to make use of authorization cards signed by individual workers in place of the secret ballot as a means of determining whether or not a union has the support of a majority of workers in a bargaining unit. Under card-check, union support could easily by manufactured by thuggish tactics, since the union would know who has signed, and there would be no way to tell if a signature was genuine or coerced.
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