A group of Senate Republicans is seeking to reinstate secret ballots for unionization of workplaces in the United States as about 4,300 auto workers at Volkswagen’s Chatanooga, Tennessee plant decided whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW).
Last year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) abandoned more than half a century of precedent where secret ballot elections were considered the standard for deciding whether workplaces sought union representation.
In a decision in August 2023, the NLRB used a prior precedent from the 1940s that workplaces can seek to be unionized without secret ballot certification. Instead, unions can declare majority support for unionization at a workplace through a so-called “card check” rather than a secret ballot.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and
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