Working Paper: Automatic Certification or Mandatory Representation Votes?

Card Check or Mandatory Representaton Vote?
How the Type of Union Recognition Procedure Affects Union Certification Success.
Susan Johnson (McMaster University, Wilfrid Laurier University)
February 2001

Cross section time-series analysis of nine Canadian jurisdictions over nineteen years is used to identify the effect of mandatory votes/card check on certification success. The results indicate that mandatory votes reduce certification success rates by approximately 9 percentage points below what they would have been under card check. This result is robust across specifications and significant at above the 99 per cent condfidence level.
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Card Check or Mandatory Representaton Vote? How the Type of Union Recognition Procedure Affects Union Certification Success.

Card Check or Mandatory Representaton Vote?
How the Type of Union Recognition Procedure Affects Union Certification Success.