Obama’s NLRB Pushes “Snap Elections” for Union Gain

From blog.heritage.org (June 21, 2011):

Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been aggressively reinterpreting the law to foist unions on workers—whether they want them or not. The Board famously filed charges against Boeing for creating jobs at a nonunion plant in South Carolina. Today the Board announced its most aggressive move yet: snap elections.

Currently the NLRB takes between five and six weeks to conduct unionizing elections. Under the procedures the Board just proposed that time would fall to between 10 and 21 days.

Employers usually have no idea that unions have begun an organizing drive until the union files for an election. By that point the union has spent months selling workers on the value of unionizing. It is during the election campaign that employers get to respond.

Snap elections short-circuit employers’ ability to make their case. If the election takes place in a matter of days workers will base their decision (largely) on information received from the union. This does not benefit workers. [read more]

The blog goes on to say that some organizers use a sales tactic called “SPIN.” SPIN is an acronym for Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need payoff. Using this emotional method of persuasion the organizers try to get members. I emphasize the word “emotional” because using an emotional persuasive approach is easier than using a logical or rational approach. Anymore that’s what the Left has left in its arsenal—appealing to base emotions.

First, Big Labor wanted card check where the union leaders could see how an employee voted. Now this. If unions are supposed to be a good deal for the working guy then why all the tricks? Does Big Labor think that left up to a persons own judgment he or she won’t join a union? Then again the public never got a chance to read the ObamaCare bill before it was rushed through.