Secret Ballot Should Be Preserved

Minnesota Congressman John Kline, who introduced the "Secret Ballot Protection Act," debates on CNBC with Illinois Congresssman Phil Hare (D) why Congress should preserve the secret ballot at the workplace. "If unions and employers are sincere in their missions of protecting and serving workers," Kline says, "the real question should be how all sides can work together to protect the rights of millions of Americans whose privacy and freedom are at stake."

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[Lillymill]

Secret ballot is the biggest fraud in history!

This is one of those "rights" we never ask for but are given anyways because they benefit someone else.

You can't vote openly but you can openly declare your support for a certain party - what a bunch of nonsense.

I'd gladly give up on my secret ballot right in exchange for greater electoral transparency and the ability to actually check if my vote left where I'd actually cast it.

[22microns]

Labor Unions were good back in the early 1900's...they are killing our economy and have way too much power in Washington in 2010.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

EFCA would simply add a fourth choice for workers seeking to form a union. The legislation would require the NLRB to certify a union representative if a majority -- more than half -- of workers sign authorization cards in favor of the union.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

MYTH: EFCA will prevent the use of secret-ballot elections.

REALITY: EFCA does not strip workers of their right to choose a secret-ballot election to decide whether to select -- or not to select -- a union representative. EFCA simply gives workers the additional option of selecting a union representative by majority sign-up.

Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), there are three ways for workers to form a union: