Majority Sign-up for Public Workers

In many states in which public workers are allowed to organize, public employers are not required to honor their workers’ decision to form a union even if 100 percent of employees demonstrate they want to have a union.  Instead, state law imposes a time-consuming and costly representation process on workers and the public employer.  When a majority of workers has signed authorizations indicating their decision to form a union to be able to bargain with their employer for better wages and working conditions, this decision should be respected.  Under the current system, even where employees have clearly demonstrated their choice for union representation, the state is still mandated to undertake a time-consuming and expensive process that simply duplicates workers’ already-expressed support for forming a union.  Majority sign-up provides a streamlined, less-costly path for the state to verify workers’ choice for union representation.