Fourth Time’s a Charm for Alabama Workers Looking to Leave Union

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Free Beacon:

Employees at NTN-Bower Corporation in Hamilton, Alabama, voted 82-50 to kick UAW (United Auto Workers) Local 1990 out of the ball bearings plant. Friday’s secret ballot election was the fourth arranged to determine the union’s future at the company. The workers won the right to withdraw from the union, which has represented them since 1976, after a two-year campaign.

 

Workers voted to decertify the UAW in an earlier election, but a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) panel threw out the election after labor organizers complained of management interference. The UAW prevailed in the third election held in January 2015. Those results were thrown out after it was revealed that 148 ballots were cast even though only 139 employees voted.

 

Union dissenters petitioned the NLRB for a fourth election with help from the National Right to Work Committee (NRTW). Patrick Semmens, a spokesman for the group, said that the workers overcame a stacked deck of pro-labor NLRB regulators and powerful union officials.

 

“The Obama NLRB seems to have adopted the Roach Motel model of forced unionism, focused completely on making it as easy as possible for union organizers to unionize a workplace while making it nearly impossible for workers to remove an unwanted union,” he said.