Posts Tagged ‘Electronic Ballots’
“e-Voting” Could Be Too Similar To Card Check
One of the issues that has been raised as it’s been discovered that the National Labor Relations Board has issued a request for cost estimates of a system that would allow employees to use electronic ballots in union-representation elections is whether the process will open employees to intimidation in the same way as the card check provision of the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act.
Keith Bogardus of the The Hill, who has been tracking this issue for years, ran an article yesterday examining employer concerns. The piece highlighted a letter by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, of which Associated Builders and Contractors is a member:
Will Workplace Democracy Get e-Screwed?*
Our colleague Keith Smith at Shopfloor has an insightful look at some of the notable cases to be made against the possible electronic ballot that the National Labor Relations Board has shown interest in. Click through to see a surprising name.
* unintentionally offensive title reference here
