Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) has reintroduced the Secret Ballot Protection Act (SBPA) (H.R. 972) in the House of Representatives, legislation that would amend the National Labor Relations Act to guarantee the right to secret ballot union representation elections. In January, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) introduced a companion bill in the Senate. Both bills would make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to recognize a union that has not been selected via secret ballot and make it unlawful for a union that has not been chosen as the employees’ exclusive representative in a secret ballot election conducted by the NLRB to cause or attempt to cause an employer to recognize or bargain with it.  Continue reading this entry at Littler's Labor Relations Counsel.

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