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The Secret Ballot Protection Act: It’s Time
to Make it Law
Posted by LaborUnionReport
Jan. 17, 2011 - Let’s put this whole debate about card-check to bed
once and for all. It’s time to pass the Secret Ballot Protection Act.
On Friday, the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board
threatened to sue the states of Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota
and Utah, if any (or all) of them attempt to enforce the recent
voter-approved measures in their states that guarantee workers the
right to a secret-ballot election.
The states were also advised that the Board has authorized the Acting
General Counsel to file lawsuits in federal court, if necessary, to
enjoin them from enforcing the laws.
As unions have spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying Democrat
politicians to pass the job-killing and hallucinogenically-named
Employee Free Choice Act, it is natural that the union-controlled NLRB
would come down against the states for trying to ensure secret-ballots
for workers. However, as the NLRB recently affirmed that it is legal
for a union and employer to bargain even before a union is recognized
in exchange for card-check, workers’ rights are being seriously eroded
under the current regime.
There is, however, a way in which this entire issue can be ended once
and for all for the entire nation…That is through the passage of the
Secret Ballot Protection Act.
Here is the entire bill. It is as simple as it is short.
Most Americans (78%) believe that “secret ballot elections are the most
democratic method of choosing representation, while 87 percent
agree that ‘every worker should continue to have the right to a
federally supervised secret ballot election when deciding whether to
organize a union.’” Unions and the union-controlled National Labor
Relations Board would prefer rather do away with secret-ballots.
If Democrats don’t want to allow Americans to have secret-ballot votes
on whether to become unionized or not, let them go on record (publicly)
and vote against secret-ballots. If President Obama doesn’t want
Americans to have the right to a secret-ballot vote on unionization,
then let him veto it…publicly.
Let’s put a stop to the attempts to kill secret-ballot elections and
get the Secret Ballot Protection Act made into law. It’s really that
simple.
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