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President Could Radically Change Workers' Rights
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30279
Subject(s) - labor relations , representation (politics) , political science , ballot , united states labor law , industrial relations , private sector , labor union , public administration , law , labor history , political economy , labour economics , economics , voting , politics
“The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election processes have failed to achieve the National Labor Relations Act's (NLRA) goal of enabling unionized workers to select their own representatives,” states a recent report from the conservative Heritage Foundation. Only 6 percent of private‐sector workers currently represented by unions voted for union representation, according to the report. The other 94 percent are represented by legacy labor organizations for which they never voted. “This happens because unions do not regularly stand for re‐election and unions often bypass secret ballot organizing elections altogether,” the report explained.