Furthermore, for proportional representation elections, a single transferable vote variant has been proposed.
Holding representation elections, much less establishing bargaining units or determining majority status, was not even considered by the Board.
Yet the commission proposes virtually nothing to rectify these abuses, short of speeding up representation elections.
The party is in favor of party-list proportional representation elections with open lists.
Union officials say they have embraced card checks after concluding that representation elections are skewed against them.
These dealings, the union contended, enhanced the new group's chances of winning the representation election, which it did by a 57-35 vote.
Local 6 overwhelmingly won the Tavern employees' representation election in January.
For months, Aramark insisted that the union agree to hold a representation election in which the 56 workers would cast secret ballots.
The number of representation elections in American workplaces has declined sharply.
Even in a proportional representation election the Unionists won all four seats.