NMB overreach: Union elections are forever; AFL-CIO hypocrisy

While I was on vacation last week, American businesses and workers were the losers when a divided US Appellate Court ruled that the National Mediation Board can upend 75 years of precedent by requiring that only a majority of those voting in an airline or rail union election were needed to organize a workforce, rather than a majority of employees.

Yes, our elections for public office follow that rule, but as I've written before, voters have the chance to remove the rascals they voted for anywhere from two to six years later. No union in the air or rail industry has ever been decertified by its members.

So the standard to organize a workforce needs to be quite high.

The AFL-CIO NOW blog lauds "the democratic election rule" prevailing, but this is the same AFL-CIO that was wanted to drop secret-ballot elections as if it was a live hand grenade as it pursued, Captain Ahab like, the anti-Democratic and ludricously-misnamed Employee Free Choice Act when the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 and only gave up when the Republicans took back the House last year.

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