{"id":1728225,"date":"2022-11-07T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728225"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:17:55","slug":"biden-makes-it-harder-to-oust-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-it-harder-to-oust-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Makes It Harder to Oust Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-makes-it-harder-to-oust-unions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728225&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.07-02.36-thepoliticalinsider-6369180935817.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A day after President Joe Biden claimed \u201cAmerican democracy is under attack,\u201d his administration took action to make it more difficult for employees to vote on whether or not they want to join a union.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At a Democrat Party campaign\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FIx7DJceGS0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">event<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">on Wednesday, Biden said democracy is under attack by the \u201cMAGA Republican Party,\u201d referring to those who support former President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/union-deletes-document-after-report-shows-taxpayer-funded-collusion-with-biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union Deletes Document After Report Shows Taxpayer-Funded Collusion With Biden Administration<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe must vote knowing who we have been and what we\u2019re at risk of becoming,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWe must vote knowing what\u2019s at stake and not just the policy of the moment \u2013 but institutions that have held us together, as we\u2019ve sought a more perfect union, are also at stake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The next day, his administration\u2019s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced it would start the process to rescind a 2020 rule implemented to protect workers\u2019 right to vote on removing union representation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The NLRB adopted the Election Protection Rule in 2020 to reform several processes, including union officials filing \u201cblocking charges\u201d to prevent employees from voting out union representation from their workplace. Filing blocking charges by making one or multiple allegations against an employer prevents employees from voting, or their ballots are impounded because litigation ensues over the charges. This process often takes months or years to resolve, during which union representation and dues deductions continue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe Biden-appointed NLRB majority \u2013 two of whom were union lawyers when nominated for their seats on the Board \u2013 is once again protecting union boss power to the detriment of the statutory rights of rank-and-file workers,\u201d National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix said. \u201cMake no mistake, reversing the Election Protection Rule will mean more workers trapped in forced union ranks they oppose, and more denials of worker requests for basic secret-ballot votes regarding union status.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/unions-wrongly-received-36-7-million-in-ppp-federal-covid-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unions Wrongly Received $36.7 Million In PPP Federal Covid Aid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe NLRB\u2019s own statistics indicate that workers are currently seeking to throw out unwanted unions at the highest rate in years. Yet rather than reflect on why so many workers want nothing to do with union so-called \u2018representation,\u2019 the anti-worker response of the Biden Administration and their Big Labor allies is to build a wall to keep workers in unions, or to stop them from even holding votes to oust incumbent union bosses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to NLRB\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/search\/case?f%5b0%5d=case_type:R&#038;date_start=08%2F01%2F2021&#038;date_end=07%2F31%2F2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>data<\/strong><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, among petitions filed to hold elections to install or remove a union, a unionized private-sector worker was more than twice as likely to attempt to decertify union representation than a nonunion worker was to unionize, the foundation notes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While a pro-union group, The Worker Power Coalition, argues the \u201csurge in worker organizing is the largest in more than 50 years,\u201d and the data shows a 53% increase in union representation petitions, a\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/why-are-union-elections-increasing-in-7324089\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Horton Law PLLC \u2013 JDSupra<\/strong><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0analysis says otherwise. It said the average number of representative petitions filed in the first three quarters of FY 2017, 2018, and 2019 were \u201calmost exactly the same number as were filed in the first nine months of FY 2022.\u201d Decertification filings increased in FY 2022 by 42% compared to a 36% increase in representation petitions filed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Additionally, one year after the 2020 Election Protection Rule went into effect, NRWF attorneys assisted over 7,000 employees at 54 workplaces in exercising their right to hold votes to oust union officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 2020 Election Protection Rule also substantially eliminated the so-called \u201cvoluntary recognition bar\u201d that had enabled union officials to block workers from requesting a secret-ballot election after a union had been installed through a \u201ccard check\u201d drive. Such a drive occurs when professional union organizers approach employees to get them to sign cards that count as official \u201cvotes\u201d for unionization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/snapshot-of-the-state-of-the-economy-adults-living-in-dorms-unfilled-jobs-and-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snapshot of the State of the Economy: Adults Living In Dorms, Unfilled Jobs, and Chaos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The rule change allowed employees to have a secret-ballot election to determine how much support a union might have, alleviating \u201cpressure from coworkers and union organizers [who] often force workers to sign off on unionization they would not have accepted had their decision been private,\u201d the foundation explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The foundation argues that if the Election Protection Rule were to be fully eliminated, it would be more difficult for employees to vote to oust unions. Even if they can vote, the results might not be made public for months or even years due to litigation over blocking charges. And employees forced to unionize through a card check drive could be barred for years from holding a secret-ballot vote, the foundation notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The proposed rule must now be subjected to a comment period that ends on Jan. 17, 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In addition to the latest proposed change, the NLRB has taken steps to revive the Joy Silk doctrine, a 1949 board decision that would make it much easier for unions to form without a potentially-challenging secret ballot election. The change wouldn\u2019t be subject to a comment period, rather the board simply issuing a General Counsel memo telling regional labor offices to conduct business as such.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) A day after President Joe Biden claimed \u201cAmerican democracy is under attack,\u201d his administration took action to make it more difficult for employees to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1728228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}