The margin of victory must be greater than the number of contested votes in order to determine a winner, or the vote will be escalated to a hearing on whether or not to open and count the questioned votes.
For more reporting from Newsweek’s Scott McDonald, see below.
“I have long said America wasn’t built by Wall Street, it was built by the middle class. And unions built the middle class,” the president said. “Unions put power in the hands of the workers. They level the playing field. They give you a stronger voice for your health, your safety, higher wages, protections from racial discrimination and sexual harassment.”
Biden said workers should not feel threatened on whether they should join a union, nor which ones they should choose. He cited the National Labor Relations Act, saying, “we should encourage unions.”
“Today, and over the next few days and weeks, workers in Alabama and all across America are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. This is vitally important—a vitally important choice as America grapples with the deadly pandemic, the economic crisis and the reckoning on race—what it reveals the deep disparities that still exist in our country.”
Biden added that there should be “no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda. No supervisor should confront employees about their union preferences.”
For more reporting from The Associated Press, see below.
The next step is to open the uncontested votes from their envelopes and start counting “yes” or “no” votes.
