Now Trumka Defends Workplace Democracy
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 by adminThank goodness for the ardent defense of workplace democracy being demonstrated by the AFL-CIO, whose president writes:
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that shouldn’t even have to exist.
The question in New Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board is whether decisions by the NLRB-the body created under the National Labor Relations Act to protect workplace democracy-are valid when the board has only two of the five members provided for in the act.
Hmm. Notice that part, “protect workplace democracy”? Interesting.
All this time we were worried that union bosses had forgotten about workplace democracy. After all, they’ve been pushing the card check bill, which would effectively eliminate secret ballot elections from the workplace and threaten an employee’s right to vote on an eventual contract proposal.
And SEIU has faced allegations by union rivals of subverting democracy for their own members of changing ballots, showing up at workers’ homes as many as five times a day to pressure them to vote for SEIU, questioning the legal status of one worker, and threatening the wages and benefits of a worker if they voted the wrong way.
Glad we’ve cleared up where they stand on workers’ rights.
UPDATE: Shopfloor’s Keith Smith writes: “It’s humorous to see the AFL-CIO calling for a recess appointment in such strong terms when, in 2006, the union’s leader was so adamantly opposed to using a recess appointment to fill a vacant seat at the NLRB.”
Tags: AFL-CIO, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, SEIU
