Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 30—Guest: The National Retail Federation's Ed Egee on Underground Efforts To Install Electronic Voting and Card Check

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Despite an average win rate of more than two-thirds of all NLRB-conducted secret-ballot elections since the mid-2000s, unions and their allies continue try to effectively eliminate workers’ right to vote in secret-ballot elections, as well as tilt the playing field to unions.

Despite their repeated efforts over the last 15 years to legislatively institute the flawed process of unionization called “card check,” unions have, thus far, failed.

However, now, unions are using the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), as well as alternative bills like the COMPETES Act and amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022 to sneak card check in on a piecemeal basis.

The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), a coalition “composed of hundreds of organizations representing millions of businesses that employ tens of millions of workers nationwide in nearly every industry,” has been opposing elimination of secret-ballot election (via card check) since 2005 and now focuses on “regulatory overreach” by the NLRB.

In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Ed Egee, who chairs the CDW’s lobbying committee and is vice president of government relations and workforce development at the National Retail Federation, joins host Peter List to discuss a number of developments in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Those developments include a new CDW report on unions’ “latest attempt to workers’ right to secret ballots” through online voting, the CDW letter opposing an amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022 that “would eliminate workers’ right to secret ballots in union representation elections, as well as attempts to eviscerate the “gig economy” and the independent contractor model through the so-called ‘ABC Test.’

Related Reading:

• CDW Issues Report on the Dangers of Online Voting in Union Representation Elections
• CDW Sends Letter to House Opposing Radical Labor Provisions in NDAA
• NLRB General Counsel Wants to Throw out Decades of Labor Law Precedent to Tip Scales in Favor of Unions

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