Misread: How Legal Authorities Allowed Tyranny of the Minority to Subvert Worker Enfranchisement

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Co-published by Institute for the American Worker and Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Authored by Steve Delie, Director of Labor Policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy

It is time to bring worker enfranchisement to unions across the country. In a new report co-published by Institute for the American Worker and Mackinac Center, author Steve Delie outlines how union organizing should be held to a higher threshold, requiring unions to win a majority of all employees at a job site or, at a minimum, require a quorum of those workers to vote in order to organize them.

Delie shows the current majority of votes approach is contrary to the plain language of the National Labor Relations Act, the federal law that governs private sector unions.

The NLRA clearly requires a “majority of the employees in a unit” to certify a union.  However, the National Labor Relations Board has strayed from this plain language almost since the beginning. If unions are given the privilege to represent all employees in a collective bargaining unit they should be required to have support from a majority of those employees as the NLRA requires.

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