Card Check: Democrats Tout The Secret Ballot

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 by Admin

As employer groups and free market advocates have been saying for years, the secret ballot elections process for choosing union representation is the best guarantee against retribution fro an employee’s preference. Union officials and their allies have played coy and said there’s no such need for protecting privacy and they’ve tried — increasingly unsuccessfully — to bring Congressional Democrats with them.

Thankfully, many Democrats, especially in the Senate, have decided that the Employee Free Choice Act’s secret-ballot-reducing “card check” provision. And now, even if unintentionally, they are raising the possibility of using secret ballots in their own chairmanship decisions, as reported by The Hill’s Alexander Bolton today:

In an apparent warning to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), some liberal Democrats have suggested a secret-ballot vote every two years on whether or not to strip committee chairmen of their gavels.

Baucus, who is more conservative than most of the Democratic Conference, has frustrated many of his liberal colleagues by negotiating for weeks with Republicans over healthcare reform without producing a bill or even much detail about the policies he is considering.

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3 Responses to “Card Check: Democrats Tout The Secret Ballot”

  1. September 9th, 2009 at 8:20 am

    President Obama Becomes Latest Democratic Card Check Opponent | thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check says:

    [...] president is not the first Democrat to be put in this position. We were encouraged when Sen. Harkin recently endorsed secret ballots for internal Democratic politics. That’s to say nothing of Big Labor’s own hypocrisy on [...]

  2. September 11th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    On Those Harkin Comments | thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check says:

    [...] simply remain hopeful that the Senator’s new-found faith in secret ballots carries over to his work on [...]

  3. October 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Card Check, Hissing, Booing and Foot Stomping | thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check says:

    [...] it was the good Senator supporting secret ballots, which EFCA would effectively eliminate. Now he’s concerned about the exact type of behavior [...]