Posts Tagged ‘Airlines’
“Mini Card Check” Is Major Problem
John Gizzi over at Human Events writes about efforts by the Obama Administration and others to push “mini card check” — his term for the effort by the National Mediation Board to approve a regulation that would change the way in which majorities airline and railroad workers approve a new union:
In other words, only those airline and railway workers who choose to vote on whether they want to organize a union will make that decision. One does not have to be an authority on union organizing to guess that this change of rules makes it much easier for labor leaders to expand union membership, thus enhancing their powers.
“It’s ‘mini card check,’ pure and simple,” one expert on labor issues from the business side (who requested anonymity) told me, likening the NMB decision to labor’s much-sought provision in the Employee Free Choice Act that severely waters down the secret ballot in union election. “This is a blatantly political and, like ‘card check,’ it tips the process of union elections to the labor bosses.”
