“Union card check needs closer look”
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 by AdminThe Hawaii’s Star-Bulletin editorial board writes:
Gov. Linda Lingle has promised to issue her second veto of a bill that would allow labor unions in Hawaii to circumvent secret elections in organizing campaigns. The issue now is before Congress to find a compromise that would prevent intimidation from labor or management in determining union representations of employees …
Card check is no remedy. Darwin L.C. Ching, director of Hawaii’s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, correctly pointed out in testimony to legislators that in such a system “there is no way to determine whether a worker’s signature was given freely and without intimidation, pressure or coercion from fellow employees, labor representatives, or the employer.”
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