LEGISLATIVE ISSUES — CAN A LAME DUCK FLY?

LABOR: This is an issue in which the PIA/GATF is taking a defensive stand. A union-backed initiative seeks to remove secret ballot elections on the question of organizing and replacing it with a “card check” campaign, where worker signatures are collected in order to garner a majority. Lyons points out that, statistically, unionizing efforts are far less successful through secret ballot than they are via card check elections.