Union bosses got another ally into a position of power last month with the appointment of union lawyer and labor professor Michael Hayes to become the director a little-known, but powerful Department of Labor sub-agency called the Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS).
As the new director of the OLMS, Michael Hayes is not just a union attorney and law professor, he is an advocate with extremely pro-union views.
In addition to authoring a number of pro-union articles and essays, Hayes has written what is considered “the bible” for union organizing in the construction industry, The Campaign Guide: Organizing the Construction Industry.
The guide offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to organizing that engages members, unrepresented workers, contractors, and secondaries withescalating actions on multiple fronts. It covers every legal aspect and offers practical tips and information for communicating with workers, staging actions, increasing turnout for events, conducting strategic research, selecting targets and much, much more. [Emphasis added.]
Hayes’ advocacy for unions doesn’t just end with writing a guide for union organizers. In one paper, he actually argued for permitting [construction] unions, during organizing campaigns, to give workers “union benefits” before they vote.
Notwithstanding the fact that workers’ voting for union representation–even in the construction trades–does not bind an employer into paying for union benefits, the permitting of unions (or employers) to bribe workers into voting for (or against) union representation is considered interfering with workers’ ability to make a free and un-coerced decision on union representation.
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