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    Youngkin administration moves to protect public employees and taxpayers from union excesses

    May 27, 2025 // First, the regulations would expressly extend to public employees the right to select a union pursuant to a secret-ballot election. In so doing, the proposed rules would protect public employees from being pressured or coerced into unionization via the infamous “card check” process, by which union organizers approach employees directly about publicly signing union petition cards. In its brief comment on the proposed regulations, the Virginia Education Association (VEA) claimed that, “All collective bargaining resolutions adopted by Virginia school boards, to date, provide for free and fair secret ballot elections…” But, as the Freedom Foundation documented in its comment, this is simply incorrect:

    Card Check cities collective bargaining Competitive Enterprise Institute conditions of employment County Democrats Falls Church City Public Schools Freedom Foundation Glenn Youngkin government employees House Bill 582 Loudoun County NEA paycheck deduction payroll deduction Public Employees Ralph Northam Richmond Public Schools school districts Secret Ballot SEIU taxpayers Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy Union union dues union-time Virginia Virginia Department of Labor and Industry Virginia Education Association