As if unions are not satisfied with the attempt to use card checks to increase their power, they are now petitioning the National Labor Relations Board to order employers to engage in collective bargaining with unions that represent only a minority of workers.
Such an action would be a dramatic departure from current collective bargaining practices, where employers must bargain with a union that represents a majority of employees. Obviously, this is simply another tactic for unions to beef up their membership roles.
This new tactic is being aggressively supported by the United Steel Workers and the United Auto Workers, which hope that a Democratic president will appoint pro-union members to the NLRB, which in turn will adopt the position now being put forward by the unions.
