A Different Kind of Election

Standard operating procedure is for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to allow the parties to settle for 80 percent.

Results of the poll are reported at www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=6806. The actual text of the question at issue is as follows: "Some companies and union organizers want to make a special agreement to unionize the workers if at least half of the workers sign their names on cards saying they want a union, rather than letting all the workers vote in a secret-ballot election overseen by the government. Do you agree or disagree that it should be legal for a company and union organizers to make this special agreement to bypass the normal secret-ballot process to determine whether to unionize the workers?" Twenty-six percent of those polled agreed with the statement, and 8 percent were not sure.