Bloomberg: Unions Winning Nearly 77% of Secret Ballot Elections

For nearly 15 years, unions and their allies in Congress and the National Labor Relations Board (currently) have been attempting to end secret-ballot elections in the workplace over the question of unionization.

While the process of card-check is not written into the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (aka the “PRO Act”), National Labor Relations Board General Counsel is attempting to effectively eliminate secret-ballot elections through the “joy Silk Doctrine.”

However, data reported by Bloomberg indicates that unions are already winning the vast majority of secret-ballot elections—even more so in 2022.

Unions’ win rate decreased from about 75% in 2019 to 70.4% in 2020, but then bounced back to 75.6% in 2021 and 76.8% so far this year, according to the labor data.

Organizing activity has also been spiking. The amount of union petitions filed with the NLRB grew by 58% from October 2021 to June 2022, compared to the same period in 2020 to 2021.

With unions already winning the vast majority of elections, do unions really need to eliminate secret-ballot elections?

Read the whole Bloomberg article here.

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