Having secured seven Republican signatures on their discharge petition, Democratic lawmakers just secured an imminent vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act — a union leaders’ pipedream that was considered too radical to pass Congress even under the Obama-era Democratic supermajority. This legislation would allow unelected, uninformed federal bureaucrats to set the terms of union contracts if the parties can’t reach an agreement within 90 days of negotiations and 30 days of mediation. The result could be lost jobs, failed businesses, and a dictatorial union contract process.For all labor unions’ posturing about democracy in the workplace, they’re lobbying hard for a bill that would give individual workers even less of a voice.
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Nearly all union constitutions and bylaws require a majority of union members to vote in favor of a collective bargaining agreement before it’s ratified. But under the Faster Labor Contracts Act, any negotiations that result in forced arbitration would leave workers without a vote on their binding employment terms.
This would come on top of unions already preventing individual workers from dealing directly with employers on their own terms because, even if workers don’t want union representation, the union has a monopoly on worker representation.
