Stefan Gleason of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation writes

here about the recent University of Miami case where the school

has capitulated to a demand by a union that it go along with a “card check”

campaign, which means that the targeted employees (janitors) won’t actually

get to vote on unionization in a secret ballot, but instead the union will

be declared victorious once a majority of the workers have signed cards that

supposedly attest to their desire for union representation. This “card

check” procedure is notoriously abusive.

Desperate for new revenue sources, organized labor has been looking more at

higher education. Unions function best in an environment that’s free from

competition. While there is some degree of competition among schools, it’s

not like General Motors and Toyota.

Last year, the UAW won bargaining rights at Carroll College in Wisconsin

(where I happen to have earned my BA). The trouble in all instances of

unionization is that it turns what ought to be an individual decision into

one of majority rule, thereby compelling some professors, janitors, and so

on to accept (and pay for, unless it’s in a right to work state)

representation they don’t want. That rule, part of the National Labor

Relations Act, is completely inconsistent with individual liberty and ought

to be junked.