Responding to the decline of labor unions over the past 30 years, they attempted to change federal law to do away with secret ballot elections. Union leaders prefer the “card check” process in which organizers persuade employees to sign cards stating they want representation.

When the effort to substitute the card check for the secret ballot was defeated in 2010, the unions set their sights on Plan B: administrative rulemaking designed to expedite the election process.

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