Unions Using Harassment, NLRB to Avoid Secret Ballot Elections

Press Release

Today the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions heard testimony from David Bego, President and CEO of Executive Management Services of Indianapolis on the impact of union corporate campaigns and the National Labor Relations Board on job creation and the economy.

Bego testified about his experience as a target of an SEIU corporate campaign, an attack by the union on the ability of Executive Management Services (and other companies and industries) to conduct routine business, in order to force them to recognize a union without a secret ballot election.

Speaking of his company's experience, Bego said: "Unfortunately, events that have transpired over the past five to six years have made me aware of the efforts of certain labor unions to attempt to impose forced unionism. This is an effort by labor unions, not to organize employees based on employee needs, but rather to organize companies for the purpose of increasing membership and, ultimately, the union's power."

Rokita added:"As Indiana Secretary of State I closely followed the corporate campaign waged against Executive Management Services. Dave Bego deserves tremendous credit for standing up to Big Labor when many would have simply given in to their threats and intimidation."

Corporate campaigns disrupt targeted businesses with attacks including legislation, political/religious campaigns, baseless complaints to regulatory agencies, and negative publicity campaigns aimed at reducing a company's goodwill with employees, clients, investors and the general public.

Employers can spend hundreds of thousands, or even millions fighting these corporate campaigns, while facing devastating losses of business, public goodwill and jobs. For this reason, and the NLRB's clear bias toward labor, employers often cave to union demands.

"Unable to ram card check legislation through Congress, union bosses wage these corporate campaigns in an effort to unionize companies without a secret ballot election and increase their own power. They are destructive to businesses large and small, and they destroy jobs," Rokita said. "Even more troubling, however, is the unprecedented aggressiveness with which the President's NLRB is interfering with companies and openly pressing Big Labor's agenda."

"The NLRB has gone far beyond advancing frivolous complaints to aid corporate campaigns. As the case of Boeing demonstrates, the NLRB is now trying to force companies to open new operations in states with compulsory union membership rather than in right-to-work states."

"The Obama administration has already begun paying back its big money backers in Big Labor with Obamacare waivers. Now the NLRB--which should be a neutral arbiter of labor practices--has been tasked with advancing Big Labor's agenda."

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