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Would union vote timing rule ambush employers?

A new rule that would allow quicker elections in union organizing efforts would make it harder for small businesses to oppose them, a business trade groups lawyer said during a Senate hearing.

By Kathleen Miller | Updated on February 12, 2015
(AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)

(Bloomberg) — A new rule that would allow quicker elections in union organizing efforts would make it harder for small businesses to oppose them, a business trade group’s lawyer said during a Senate hearing.

Current union election processes take a median of 38 days, while the new regulation would allow votes in as few as 10 days, National Federation of Independent Business lawyer Elizabeth Milito told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday.

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