Secret Ballot Watch

Dogged by massive unpopularity and a losing message, supporters of the anti-worker card check plan are going to great lengths to revive their ill-conceived plan to deny workers the right to a secret ballot. Luckily for American workers, editorial pages around the country aren’t buying into the rhetoric.

While supporters of the card check plan struggle to convince the American people that they aren’t eliminating the secret ballot after all, the facts speak for themselves. Consider the following, from an editorial in today’s Charleston Daily Mail— 

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"The act is also known as the 'card check' bill. It would allow unions to organize workplaces by pressuring workers to sign cards.

"Should congressmen and senators pass the bill, workers could find themselves represented by a union without ever having a chance to vote on it. …

"Workers need to be able to decide privately - without fear of retribution - whether they want to belong to a union."

Editorial, “Do W.Va. workers want to keep secret ballots?,” Charleston Daily Mail, 02.06.09 

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No matter how they try to spin it, card check advocates simply can’t justify their plan to scrap the secret ballot in favor of a public sign-up process that opens workers to the threat of pressure, intimidation, or coercion.

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