Obama's War Against Secret Ballots: Privacy Doesn't Serve The Politician
Clint Bolick writes at IBD about the Obama admin's pressure for open voting ("card check") to replace the secret balloting to decide whether to unionize:
The Obama administration has fired its opening salvo against a cornerstone of democracy: the right to secret ballot.Last fall, voters in four states voted overwhelmingly to amend their constitutions to protect the right of workers to vote by secret ballot in deciding whether or not to form unions. That right has been enshrined in federal law for 75 years but is threatened by bills pending in Congress.
Nonetheless, the Obama National Labor Relations Board has filed a lawsuit against Arizona seeking to halt its protection of the right to secret ballot. Federal law governs labor relations, the NLRB asserts, and states cannot provide greater security for worker rights.
Why is the Obama administration taking such a profoundly anti-democratic position? The answer is simple: It's pay-off time for the massive labor union support Barack Obama received in the 2008 election.
...But everyone knows that unions are never corrupt and would never seek to punish their members for not voting the way the union leadership wants....oh...wait....
Robert at August 23, 2011 1:43 AM
Let's hear the indignant screams about corporations having a voice in politics. They should sit down, shut up and take it like a man. The government will protect them. S&P would have been OK if they had said the right things.
MarkD at August 23, 2011 6:00 AM
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