 it's it's a subterfuge that's used by unions to trick people and here's how it works you're working somewhere and there's no union there and somebody comes by and says hey would you like to have an election to decide whether or not we're going to have a union and they hand you a card now you sound like you're pro-union you might have signed it anyway but if somebody says yeah i really don't want a union but yeah let's have an election