Bismarck

The related story in the Philadelphia Inquirer states:

The cases involve labor's most successful membership-building technique: persuading management to recognize a union when most workers sign union cards. This "voluntary-recognition" method skips the cumbersome traditional NLRB secret-election process.

This "voluntary-recognition" is only voluntary on the part of the employer. The employees who were decieved and badgered into signing the cards are hardly volunteers.

As one who had the pleasure of being "represented" by an unwanted union for much of my working life, I find the verbal acrobatics used by the advocates of this disenfranchisement of the rank-and-file particulary offensive.