Now PRIVATE EMPLOYERS are covered by FEDERAL union law and under FEDERAL LAW a vote has to be taken to decertify. Most states adopted similar laws for their governmental employees (The only employees NOT covered by FEDERAL union law).
The Big problem is WISCONSIN STATE UNION LAW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_Act_10
Collective Bargaining: The bill would make various changes to limit collective bargaining for most public employees to wages. Total wage increases could not exceed a cap based on the consumer price index (CPI) unless approved by referendum. Contracts would be limited to one year and wages would be frozen until the new contract is settled. Collective bargaining units are required to take annual votes to maintain certification as a union. Employers would be prohibited from collecting union dues and members of collective bargaining units would not be required to pay dues. These changes take effect upon the expiration of existing contracts. Local law enforcement and fire employees, and state troopers and inspectors would be exempt from these changes
Thus the union has to have a CERTIFICATION VOTE EVERY YEAR.
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/acts/10.pdf
SECTION 289. 111.83 (3) (b) of the statutes is created
to read:
111.83 (3) (b) Annually, no later than December 1, the commission shall conduct an election to certify the
representative of a collective bargaining unit that contains a general employee. There shall be included on the ballot the names of all labor organizations having an interest in representing the general employees participating in the election. The commission may exclude from the ballot one who, at the time of the election, stands deprived of his or her rights under this subchapter by reason of a prior adjudication of his or her having engaged in an unfair labor practice. The commission shall certify any representative that receives at least 51 percent of the votes of all of the general employees in the collective bargaining unit. If no representative receives at least 51 percent of the votes of all of the general employees in the collective bargaining unit, at the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement, the commission shall decertify the current representative and the general employees shall be nonrepresented. Notwithstanding s. 111.82, if a representative is decertified under this paragraph, the affected general employees may not be included in a substantially similar collective bargaining unit for 12 months from the date of decertification. The commission’s certification of the results of any election is conclusive unless reviewed as provided by s. 111.07 (8)
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