As for the Employee Free Choice Act, the current practice of the National Labor Relations Board holding a vote for workers to decide if they want their workplaces to become bargaining units of unions would end. Right now, if 30 percent of a workplace’s employees sign authorization cards, the NLRB schedules a vote that is open to all workers and uses standard democratic voting practices. If a majority of the votes are pro-union, then the workplace becomes a union shop.
Under the Employee Free Choice Act, a union is installed if a majority of workers just sign authorization cards.
“The problem with that is that there is no vote,” Grischow said. “So potentially 49 percent of the employees don’t have a say. And, it opens the door for workers to be coerced or lied to while being pressured to sign the authorization cards.”
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