Secret Ballot In Name Only

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.

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[JenniferSargent]

Wow, this is scary. Prof. Lafer gives a very succinct description of how employers bully people out of joining a union. Yikes!

[FluxCapacitor2008]

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:

[AndreRGSanchez]

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.

[thompsfloyd]

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.

[econdemocracy]

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...

[mjhanagan]

Wow, Loretta Sanchez has LOTS of experience with vote fraud so she is the perfect person to be asking questions about vote secrecy.

[thompsfloyd]

what is scary about this video, is the hypocrisy and lies that are accepted as fact.

[mcradiation]

Very nice.