{"id":2454,"date":"2004-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:26:49","slug":"john-kerry-and-john-edwards-formally-join-legal-battle-to-deny-employees-secret-ballot-elections-on-unionization-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/john-kerry-and-john-edwards-formally-join-legal-battle-to-deny-employees-secret-ballot-elections-on-unionization-0\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry and John Edwards Formally Join Legal Battle To Deny Employees Secret Ballot Elections on Unionization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC (July 20, 2004)<\/b> – In an issue emerging as a top election-year priority for organized labor officials, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and John Edwards (D-NC) have joined with Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to file formal arguments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) urging the agency governing America\u2019s private sector workplaces to deny employees access to the less-abusive secret-ballot election process when choosing whether to unionize.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor two politicians who claim they\u2019ll stick up for America\u2019s workers, taking away basic freedoms is a strange way to show it,\u201d said Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n

Kerry, Edwards, Kennedy, 14 other Senators, and 31 congressmen joined together to file the amicus curiae<\/i> brief, perhaps the most noteworthy of dozens of briefs filed last week by representatives of management, unions, employees, public policy groups, and Members of Congress \u2013 arguing either in opposition to, or in favor of, the plight of disenfranchised employees aided by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys. <\/p>\n

The Board invited the briefs after voting 3-2 to determine the enforceability of increasingly common arrangements intended to limit further employees\u2019 freedom to determine whether union officials are authorized to represent them. These arrangements, sometimes called \u201ccard check\u201d or \u201cneutrality agreements,\u201d involve high-pressure card solicitation drives that frequently result in complaints of union coercion from rank-and-file workers.<\/p>\n

Replacing the less-abusive secret ballot election process with \u201ccard check\u201d has become the number one requirement of candidates to obtain Big Labor\u2019s support in the 2004 elections. According to the AFL-CIO\u2019s recent statement to BNA\u2019s Daily Labor Report<\/i>, \u201cwe don\u2019t have any issue that\u2019s a litmus test, but this is as close as it gets.\u201d According to the AFL-CIO, more than 80 percent of newly organized employees each year are already unionized through the controversial \u201ccard check\u201d process while the traditional election process, favored by federal labor policy and the courts, is used far less frequently.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving trouble selling even a bare majority of workers on the merits of unionization, union officials are resorting to the in-your-face \u2018card check\u2019 process to intimidate workers into supporting a union,\u201d said Gleason.<\/p>\n

Congressman Charlie Norwood (R-GA), a signatory to a separate congressional brief and lead sponsor of legislation to reduce \u201ccard check\u201d organizing abuses, said \u201cHard-working folks deserve the right to a fair and secret election \u2013 not the threats, arm-twisting, and shakedown tactics that come with \u2018card check\u2019 campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lead consolidated cases at the NLRB, brought by Foundation attorneys, arise out of the automotive industry where suppliers have cut deals with union officials to waive the secret ballot election process and to assist in pressuring employees to sign union authorization cards. The coercively obtained cards were then counted as \u201cvotes\u201d in favor of authorizing the union to act as the employees\u2019 monopoly bargaining agent. <\/p>\n

These pacts also typically require employers to hand over their employees\u2019 private information (including home addresses) to union organizers, subject employees to unsolicited \u201chome visits,\u201d and permit wide access to company facilities \u2013 resulting in employee complaints of browbeating and other harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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