Over the past year, we've spent a lot of energy documenting the various ways U.S. labor law stacks the deck against workers attempting to organize a union. Under the current system, employers -- not employees -- get to choose if organizing units are certified by National Labor Relations Board elections or majority-sign up ("card check"). Employers routinely pick the former and, during the subsequent campaign, freely subject sympathetic workers to anti-labor propoganda or firings.  Many violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in doing so, but because the penalties are so low, it's an expense they can afford.  On the outside chance that a union is formed, employers can stall, intimidate, and delay contract negotiations until a certification claim is thrown out. All in all, it's an arduous undertaking. 

This perilous process -- esoteric and somewhat difficult to explain -- has been lost in the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow workers to choose the unionization process.  Thankfully, this video intelligently outlines what workers must currently endure to establish a bargaining unit.  It's entitled "How Not To Join A Union" and was produced by the folks over at the Center for American Progress: