Gordon Lafer, a professor at the University of Oregon, discusses how employers and their "union-avoidance" consultants have undermined secret ballots under current NLRB election rules.
Gordon Lafer, a professor at the University of Oregon, discusses how employers and their "union-avoidance" consultants have undermined secret ballots under current NLRB election rules.
EFCA would simply add a fourth choice for workers seeking to form a union. The legislation would require the NLRB to certify a union representative if a majority -- more than half -- of workers sign authorization cards in favor of the union.
MYTH: EFCA will prevent the use of secret-ballot elections.
REALITY: EFCA does not strip workers of their right to choose a secret-ballot election to decide whether to select -- or not to select -- a union representative. EFCA simply gives workers the additional option of selecting a union representative by majority sign-up. Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), there are three ways for workers to form a union:
The secret ballot is an abomination, and the impossibility of keeping it truly secret was known hundreds of years ago. It is just secret enough to corrupt society. That being said, there should not be "union elections", period.
in Canada if 51% want a union, they get one...as someone pointed out, if politicians had to get 51% many would be out of office..so 51% is already a HIGH BAR and high enough..what we have right now is a paradise for union-busting practices...
The requirements for certification vary between provinces & territories. Each Labour board sets out the criteria. In Ontario, if 51% of the "approved" staff, employed on the day that the certification application is registered, the OLRB will then accept it and make a ruling. inactual fact, Bill 144 has made ontario a paradise for union Salting and organizing. Where as the Alberta government has taken away some of the organizing powers and advantages that the unions once enjoyed.
REALITY: EFCA does not strip workers of their right to choose a secret-ballot election to decide whether to select -- or not to select -- a union representative. EFCA simply gives workers the additional option of selecting a union representative by majority sign-up.
Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), there are three ways for workers to form a union: