Despite over-the-top-rhetoric from opponents of workers’ rights, majority sign-up is a fair, democratic process for workers to form unions.  Research has shown that coercion or pressure is much rarer in majority sign-up campaigns than in NLRB elections. 

One recent study, Majority Authorizations and Union Organizing in the Public Sector: A Four-State Perspective (PDF) showed that in a survey of more than 1,000 majority sign-up campaigns, there were no valid cases of coercion or fraud.  This week, the Economic Policy Institute made a great visual out of these data: check it out.

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