At the hearing, Wilma B. Liebman, a Democratic member of the five-member board, which oversees unionization rules for workers in private industry, repeatedly clashed with the board's Republican chairman, Robert J. Battista.
Labor law could be costlessly amended to reinstate card-check unionization, which would re-empower a crippled union movement.
Perhaps this ethos also makes the U.F.C. more hospitable to unionization, which tends to reduce the disparity between élite athletes and bit players.
Union officials would still love to somehow enact card check, but they are also brainstorming other less ambitious bills that promote unionization, which they say is crucial to expanding the middle class.
The only way out of this mess, long-term, is to re-inflate wages (which means broad unionization and demanding that the Federal Reserve Board pursue its other rarely-talked about mandate, FULL EMPLOYMENT).
Several graduate students voiced fears that if GESO became their union, it would be dominated by Yale's two other union locals, which helped finance the unionization drive.
This view is not shared by unions, which have complained that Mackey prevents unionization among his employees, notably at a store in Madison, Wisconsin, where team members had voted to unionize.
Ms. Grow attributed the tensions with the union to the union's demand for card checks, in which workers form unions by signing cards, instead of formal unionization elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board.
For example, the agency is pushing a major rule change that would speed up unionization elections, which would most likely make it harder for employers to fight unionization and easier for unions to win organizing drives.
The vote for the union, which came after two previous decisions to reject unionization, shows pilots don't want to be left behind as the company expands.
