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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 1100462" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>Partly incorrect. It doesn't require an absolute majority to sign union representation cards to get an election held (if memory serves correctly, it is 35%, but don't hold me to that). The third party would be the union who is specified on the signed representation cards (when one signs a card, they are signing a petition for the NLRB to hold a certification election for a SPECIFIC union - in Express Couriers case it would be the IBT). If and when the union being petitioned to have a certification vote held decides to ask for an election, there is a process of "verifying" the signed representation cards (to ensure the signatures are authentic AND to verify the cards are from actual and current employees). </p><p></p><p>Given the situation with Express and the IBT, the IBT would most certainly want to have a majority of Couriers (or others in a different craft) sign representation cards BEFORE they petitioned for an election - they don't want to lose face in having only 40% sign cards, then not being able to get enough fence sitters to vote for certification once an election is approved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 1100462, member: 22880"] Partly incorrect. It doesn't require an absolute majority to sign union representation cards to get an election held (if memory serves correctly, it is 35%, but don't hold me to that). The third party would be the union who is specified on the signed representation cards (when one signs a card, they are signing a petition for the NLRB to hold a certification election for a SPECIFIC union - in Express Couriers case it would be the IBT). If and when the union being petitioned to have a certification vote held decides to ask for an election, there is a process of "verifying" the signed representation cards (to ensure the signatures are authentic AND to verify the cards are from actual and current employees). Given the situation with Express and the IBT, the IBT would most certainly want to have a majority of Couriers (or others in a different craft) sign representation cards BEFORE they petitioned for an election - they don't want to lose face in having only 40% sign cards, then not being able to get enough fence sitters to vote for certification once an election is approved. [/QUOTE]
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