> The dogma that for workers to have a chance to choose which union they
> want constitutes union busting.
Hi Shane,
Explain to me, given current labor laws, how CNA could or should have found itself on the CHP election ballot.
At any point the CNA was free to expend its resources in organizing to get 30% of CHP workers on cards and file for an NLRB election. They were also free to run a Corporate Social Responsibility campaign -- which in SEIU's version included getting 100s of CHP workers in motion -- to convince CHP to sign an election agreement. Of course they don't have the capacity or the expertise to do the latter, but that's beside the point. They didn't do either of these two things, and that's why they weren't on the ballot.
Can't quite tell if you grasp this point or not, but you are trying to imply that somehow SEIU is at fault for running a multi-year, multi-million dollar campaign to convince CHP to do the right thing -- letting their employees have a free and fair union election -- and not getting the boss to agree to have both CNA and SEIU on ballot (and why not the ONA? AFSCME? etc. etc.)? If this is indeed what you're arguing, you've simply lost touch with reality. But my guess is you just don't know what you're talking about and remain confused.
And running a campaign to have workers vote no in a union election is union busting, pure and simple.