bill removes the present right of the employer to demand an additional, separate ballot when more than half of employees have already given their signature supporting the union. Second, the bill required employers and unions to enter binding arbitration to produce a collective agreement at least 120 days after a union is recognized. Third, the bill has increased penalties on employers who discriminate against workers for union involvement.

 

To find out how effective the current NLRB system actually is—in other words, how well it reflects workers’ wishes to organize into unions and bargain contracts with management—MIT Sloan School of Management professor Thomas A. Kochan and MIT Ph.D. student John Paul Ferguson used federal data to track the progress of more than 22,000 union organizing drives...

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