Senator Orrin Hatch and Representative Tom Price have just reintroduced the Employee Rights Act, which would make some very necessary updates to labor law. Naturally, unions are engaged in the usual hyperbole attacking the legislation. See, for example, this March op-ed from the president of the Texas AFL-CIO calling it on “an attack on democracy.”

In an editorial for the WEEKLY STANDARD last fall, I explained why the Employee Rights Act was worthwhile. Among other things, the law would actually strengthen democracy in the workplace by making sure all union elections are conducted by secret ballot so that union organizers can’t identify and bully workers who don’t support them in union elections. It would also require unions to have recertification elections. Less than 10 percent of union workers have ever voted for the union representing them.