Secret Ballot Watch

America is a nation founded on freedom, but Alaska National Guard Staff Sergeant Phillip Newton sees some of those basic freedoms eroding under the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, now pending in Congress:  

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"When I joined the U.S. military, I did so because I wanted to protect the freedoms we take for granted — the freedom to vote, to find a job to support a family, to speak freely, and to do the variety of other things guaranteed to us by the Constitution. That’s why it upsets me some congressmen are working to undermine workers’ freedoms. …

“Severely weakening the secret ballot? Mandatory arbitration with government-imposed contracts? Is this what America stands for? No, but these changes to the American workforce are on their way if union bosses and their political allies get their way.”

Phillip Newton, “Voting On Unions Should Be Private,” Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 06.15.09 

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Losing the right to vote privately, free from intimidation? Or the right to vote on a contract? What’s free about that?

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