No secret ballots is how the union thugs intimidate people into voting for them and the continued abuse of the system that they want until they suck the taxpayers dry. We need to protect union workers seeing that their own unions could care less about them and us. We vote in the voting booth in secret, union members need to have the same privacy.

Figures Obama, Clinton and the rest of the congressional and this states Democrats are controlled by the unions like puppets on a string using union dues. Dues to get them re-elected to buy them off and to continue to screw us to the wall. It’s time this madness stopped.

Not-So-Special Interests Hold Parties Hostage

We take it for granted that a vote means a secret ballot, but it was not always that way. Moreover, it will not remain that way for workers who vote on whether or not they want a labor union, if legislation sponsored by congressional Democrats and endorsed by Sen. Barack Obama becomes law.

Before there were secret ballots, voters dared not express their true preferences if those who watched them vote could retaliate — whether by firing them, beating them up or in other ways.

Anyone who is serious about people being free to express themselves with their votes wants a secret ballot.

The problem for labor unions is that workers in the private sector increasingly vote against being represented by unions. The proportion of workers in the private sector who are represented by unions has fallen below 10%.

Since unions are losing the game under the current rules, their obvious answer is to change the rules. Specifically, they want to do away with secret ballots when the government conducts elections to determine whether the workers in a particular company or industry want to be represented by a union.

With labor unions being major supporters of the Democratic Party — spending hundreds of millions of dollars in this year’s election campaign — it is hardly surprising that congressional Democrats have lined up solidly behind legislation to let union organizers simply collect signed cards from a majority of workers, in order to be certified as the officially recognized union for those workers.

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