Employee Free Choice Act

Seems that Free Choice has become a euphemism for limiting choice. The Employee Free Choice Act has a provision that does away with secret balloting in the unionization process. Instead, if a majority signs cards requesting a union, it becomes certified. That means that if you oppose unionization everyone knows you do and it is logical to conclude you will be stigmatized as a result. Worse yet are the tactics the union organizer will use to coerce you into signing a card.

It is interesting to note that the same Democrats who propose doing away with a secret ballot encouraged the Mexican Government to use secret ballots in the same process.


One opponent says of this provision of the act:

It is beyond me how one can possibly claim that a system whereby everyone – your employer, your union organizer, and your co-workers – knows exactly how you vote on the issue of unionization gives an employee 'free choice' ... It seems pretty clear to me that the only way to ensure that a worker is 'free to choose' is to ensure that there's a private ballot, so that no one knows how you voted. I cannot fathom how we were about to sit there today and debate a proposal to take away a worker's democratic right to vote in a secret-ballot election and call it 'Employee Free Choice.

In an era where union representation is decreasing it seems bills like this are intended to help unions at the expense of worker's rights. As the economy seems to be slipping deeper into recession, we don't feel a bill that seems anti-business is the right way to go.