Rise in union membership shows need for employee rights

Published February 15, 2016 5:02am ET



Ambush elections. Voting without a secret ballot. The disclosure of personal information to aggressive campaigners. That’s the new story of unionization votes in America, and it’s not fair to employees.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that total union membership rose by 200,000 employees nationwide in 2015. And while the national union rate of 11.1 percent of employees remained unchanged, private-sector employees were more likely to be unionized in 2015 than in 2014.

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