By Doug Cunningham

The Bush National Labor Relations Board is attacking workers union rights again. This week in a partisan vote the NLRB allowed union recognition by a company to be negated if at least 30 percent of employees want to do that.
This ruling in the Dana Corp./UAW case is designed to blunt union success in getting employers to agree to majority sign-up – where a union is recognized when a majority fo the workers sign union cards certified by the NLRB. It reverses decades of precedent and continues Bush misuse of an agency originally set up to protect workers rights to collectively bargain and form unions.
Dissenting labor board members Dennis Walsh and Wilma Liebman say this is a sea change in labor law that will cut voluntary recognition off at the knees. The AFL-CIO says under Bush the labor board has shown itself to be little more than a political tool of right-wing Republicans in their continuing assault on America’s working families.