Card Check: Because Winning 73% Isn’t Enough
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 by AdminImportant news out of the BNA Daily Labor Report (no link available):
Unions participated in fewer resolved representation elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Board during the first half of 2009 than the same period in 2008, but the percentage of elections won by unions increased substantially, according to NLRB data analyzed by BNA PLUS, BNA’s research division.
Unions won 73.1 percent of 588 private sector elections held during the first half of 2009, up from 66.5 percent of 813 elections held during the same period in 2008. The BNA PLUS survey only tracks elections conducted by NLRB, not organizing outside of NLRB processes.
Wow, 73 percent is a serious winning percentage. To put that in perspective, consider that in the most recently completed season:
- Only 4 NFL teams won that often
- Only 3 NBA teams won that much
- 0 baseball teams won that much … in fact, no team has ever won 118 games (the toll needed to hit the 73 percent threshold for a 162-game season) in the nation’s pastime
And union officials still want to rig the rules to avoid letting employees vote in elections that Big Labor won 73 percent of the time?
