What Employer Advantage?

James Sherk / May 11, 2009

The Washington Post editorialized today in favor of a compromise on card-check, including snap elections or mandatory union access to company premises, because – they argue – the current process too heavily favors management. They also criticized the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace for refusing to admit this.

So here is a question for the Washington Post: If the current process heavily favors management, why did unions win over two-thirds of organizing elections last year?

In fact, as I have written before, labor law heavily tilts the scales in favor of unions during organizing drives: (more…)