States that have not yet passed right to work laws should instead give the unions more of what they want. It’s patently unfair that maybe 75 votes thirty years closed a shop to union representation and locked today’s workers onto a situation not of their own choosing. Right to work advocates should move to make certification an annual event, voted only from among active current employees by secret ballot. It is the onlynwaynto know if a union is truly serving the needs of its constituents. Our lawmakers stand for reelection, why not unions?
Employees may file a petition for decertification (RD) if they believe support for a union has diminished, after collecting signatures from at least 30% of workers in a unit. A majority of votes decides the outcome.
Click the link for a chart of decertification elections and the outcomes from 2001-2010:
http://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/graphs-data/decertification-elections-rd
As you can see from the chart, unions were decertified by a substantial margin in the period portrayed. The process for dececertification is not widely known and is ferociously opposed by the union when it is attempted.