{"id":111,"date":"2007-10-03T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:23:55","slug":"whose-rights-are-they-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/whose-rights-are-they-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Rights Are They Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the majority\u2019s decision in yesterday\u2019s Dana\/Metaldyne National Labor Relations Board case was a <a href=\"\/blog\/right-work-wins-new-rights-employees-against-card-check-abuse\">meaningful step forward<\/a> for employees who have been forced into a union through the abusive \u201ccard check\u201d process, the two-member dissent by Democrat NLRB members Liebman and Walsh should terrify anyone who thinks that the choice to unionize should be one solely made by employees.<\/p>\n<p>In their dissent they <a href=\"\/pdfs\/news-release-docs\/Dana-Metaldyne%20Decision.pdf\">write<\/a>: \u201c<i>An employer has little incentive to recognize a union voluntarily if it knows that its decision is subject to second-guessing through a decertification petition.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That single sentence reveals at least three biases against employee free choice held by Liebman, Walsh and the union officials who support them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, it implies that employers should have an \u201cincentive\u201d to push employees into unions through card check.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Second, it implies that employers (cooperating with union organizers) should be able to make a \u201cdecision\u201d on when and how employees join a union.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And third, it assumes that once an employer and union decide that workers should be unionized, the very employees whose rights are at stake should not even be able to weigh in on that \u201cdecision\u201d through a secret-ballot decertification election. (Liebman and Walsh call this \u201csecond-guessing\u201d but since many employees sign cards because they are <a href=\"\/b\/nr_624.php\">misled<\/a> or <a href=\"\/blog\/card-check-bullying\">pressured<\/a> by union organizers, really this is often the first chance employees have to freely express their view on unionization.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the majority\u2019s decision in yesterday\u2019s Dana\/Metaldyne National Labor Relations Board case was a <a href=\"\/blog\/right-work-wins-new-rights-employees-against-card-check-abuse\">meaningful step forward<\/a> for employees who have been forced into a union through the abusive \u201ccard check\u201d process, the two-member dissent by Democrat NLRB members Liebman and Walsh should terrify anyone who thinks that the choice to unionize should be one solely made by employees.<\/p>\n<p>In their dissent they <a href=\"\/pdfs\/news-release-docs\/Dana-Metaldyne%20Decision.pdf\">write<\/a>: \u201c<i>An employer has little incentive to recognize a union voluntarily if it knows that its decision is subject to second-guessing through a decertification petition.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That single sentence reveals at least three biases against employee free choice held by Liebman, Walsh and the union officials who support them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, it implies that employers should have an \u201cincentive\u201d to push employees into unions through card check.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Second, it implies that employers (cooperating with union organizers) should be able to make a \u201cdecision\u201d on when and how employees join a union.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And third, it assumes that once an employer and union decide that workers should be unionized, the very employees whose rights are at stake should not even be able to weigh in on that \u201cdecision\u201d through a secret-ballot decertification election. (Liebman and Walsh call this \u201csecond-guessing\u201d but since many employees sign cards because they are <a href=\"\/b\/nr_624.php\">misled<\/a> or <a href=\"\/blog\/card-check-bullying\">pressured<\/a> by union organizers, really this is often the first chance employees have to freely express their view on unionization.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Whose Rights Are They Anyway? - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/blog\/whose-rights-are-they-anyway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whose Rights Are They Anyway? - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the majority\u2019s decision in yesterday\u2019s Dana\/Metaldyne National Labor Relations Board case was a meaningful step forward for employees who have been forced into a union through the abusive \u201ccard check\u201d process, the two-member dissent by Democrat NLRB members Liebman and Walsh should terrify anyone who thinks that the choice to unionize should be one solely made by employees.In their dissent they write: \u201cAn employer has little incentive to recognize a union voluntarily if it knows that its decision is subject to second-guessing through a decertification petition.\u201dThat single sentence reveals at least three biases against employee free choice held by Liebman, Walsh and the union officials who support them: First, it implies that employers should have an \u201cincentive\u201d to push employees into unions through card check. 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