"The penalties are so miniscule . . ."

From the AFL-CIO blog (with video) a GRIT TV segment on union busting. Hint: they blame the consultants for scaring workers away from unionization. Basically Labor continues to engage in the delusion that all workers would join unions "but for" their employer's opposition. But at the end of the video, the point well made is the penalties for serious violations are an insufficient deterrent to employer misconduct. Assuming this aspect of the NLRA is broken,  and there is a lot of agreement among labor relations professionals on both sides on this point, it does not follow that the election process is broken.  With EFCA, unions want employees to choose unionization without providing time for any presentation of the case for remaining union free. That's what is really at stake with both card check and quickie election proposals.