KUDOS FOR Steve Early’s column. The thrust of the column was clear and responsible. However, may I add a few notes?
There is little public awareness that the Taft-Hartley amendments of 1947 provided management with the option of allowing a simple card-check in union recognition elections, under NLRB supervision. While management may fear truly feeble penalties for labor law violations, the public is little aware of most of management’s stalling and appealing, ultimately to defeat any union organizing. Among other reasons for the weakened effectiveness of the National Labor Relations Board is management’s longstanding objection to its very existence, to say nothing about congressional holds on appointments of board members and general counsels.
Whether it’s management opposition or administration trepidation, US labor laws must be reformed by correcting present inequities against labor unions. It is now urgent that most of management cease its more than three-century opposition to the moral right of workers to organize for collective bargaining so workers can enjoy living wages, safe and healthy working conditions, reasonable working hours, adequate health care, and pension benefits.
REV. PATRICK J. SULLIVAN
Executive Secretary & Chaplin The Labor Guild Archdiocese of Boston
Weymouth 
