It is time to level the field for working people. For capitalism to work over the long time there must be a balance to its excessives. In the USA, today, with “golden parachutes” not even counted, the ratio between what the worker on the shop floor makes and his/her boss is the highest in the world. Organized labor is just asking for balance.

If we conducted our public elections the way that NLRB elections are conducted the incumbent would be almost unbeatable. He would have the right to filter the campaign materials. He also would have the opportunity to keep you a “captive audience” while he spoon fed you his campaign. And what if the incumbent could take each constituent aside and make his own “special promise” to vote for him while those that advertise their desire to vote for someone else risk losing their “citizenship. And then right before Election Day the poling looks bad so he postpones the election. If American elections were conducted this way we would, most likely, be in the middle of a revolution.

That is exactly what happens almost every time employees working in a particular company decide to choose an NLRB election. The system IS BROKEN! Although the majority of American workers poled say they would choose a union today if they didn’t face the possibility of being fired, the number of workers belonging to unions continues to shrink.