tim_duncan2000
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- Jan 11, 2004
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I know they are just trying to court the union vote, but I don't know why they want to deny employees access to the less-abusive secret-ballot election process when choosing whether to unionize. A lot of people who usually side with unions say that the "card check" method is better because of how long the secret ballot method takes and how management sometimes to intimidate people into not voting to unionize. However, unions can also try to intimidate people (and often do) , and the article also points out that the secret ballot process is "favored by federal labor policy and the courts"). If it's favored by the courts, shouldn't the pro-union people agree with the secret ballot process? They seem to agree with other stuff "because the court says so".Washington, DC (July 20, 2004) - In an issue emerging as a top election-year priority for organized labor officials, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and John Edwards (D-NC) have joined with Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to file formal arguments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) urging the agency governing Americas private sector workplaces to deny employees access to the less-abusive secret-ballot election process when choosing whether to unionize.
For two politicians who claim theyll stick up for Americas workers, taking away basic freedoms is a strange way to show it, said Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation.
Kerry, Edwards, Kennedy, 14 other Senators, and 31 congressmen joined together to file the amicus curiae brief, perhaps the most noteworthy of dozens of briefs filed last week by representatives of management, unions, employees, public policy groups, and Members of Congress arguing either in opposition to, or in favor of, the plight of disenfranchised employees aided by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys.
The Board invited the briefs after voting 3-2 to determine the enforceability of increasingly common arrangements intended to limit further employees freedom to determine whether union officials are authorized to represent them. These arrangements, sometimes called card check or neutrality agreements, involve high-pressure card solicitation drives that frequently result in complaints of union coercion from rank-and-file workers.
http://www.nrtw.org/b/nr.php3?id=330