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It's all way in my past, but I've actually been involved in that process from several different points of view: first as a shop steward, business agent, and organizer on the union side. About 10 years after I stopped being a machinist and went back to grad school I was involved again in the process as a union member that a hostile union was trying to de-certify [AFSCME vs. Teamsters] and yet again on the management end about twenty years after that. As nasty as the process gets on all sides, the union vs. union fight was by far the dirtiest. Luckily I was just a line employee and was not involved from the labor perspective on either side, although I did have to be deponed and testify before the NLRB [which I had done several times before.]

It was actually my union activities that led me into conservatism. I didn't understand, even as an organizer for a skilled trade union how thoroughly radicalized the rank and file of the service unions was, nor how radicalized the upper levels of union organizations [in all unions] had become. My discovery that they cared all about "the cause" [communism, basically] and not the least bit for working people finally put me on the path away from the Dark Side.

Union executives are living in a fantasy world. They believe that if they can get certification to happen without secret ballot elections the unions will flourish again, as they did before Taft-Hartley under The Wagner Act. They won't. People have caught on to their grifting and their corruption and racketeering.