Big corporations, bailed-out banks and various right-wing zanies have put millions of dollars into bogus front groups, pretending to care about worker rights and 'secret ballots.' Of course they really just hate the idea that workers might win a little bargaining power over working conditions, wages and benefits.
One of their big lies is that allowing workers the free choice to form a union once a majority have signed up will lead to 'union thugs' intimidating workers into signing union cards.
The Economic Policy Institute published a report on over a thousand campaigns where workers used majority sign-up to form a union (which has always been an option, but current law allows the company, not the workers, to decide whether to recognize the majority sign-up). Out of those 1,073 organizing campaigns, there were five complaints filed by workers alleging misconduct by the union. None of those complaints was found to have merit.
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