What will be on the floor of the House tomorrow is a bill brought forward by Democrats and the leadership that will end the requirement of a secret ballot election to form a union. This is a remarkable assault on democracy and on something all Americans hold dear, and that is the ability to have a secret ballot in any election.

H.R.800 is called the “Employee Free Choice Actâ€? by the Democrats; in fact it’s the Employee Intimidation Act, and employees will be exposed to intimidation from union bosses and some from employers, so the solution is to have a secret ballot election.

This is all the more troubling when just a few years ago Representative Miller (D-Calif.), who chairs the Education and Labor Committee, sent a letter to a union local in Mexico that was considering not using a secret ballot, and he said along with other Democrat leaders, “We feel that the secret ballot is absolutely necessary in order to ensure that workers are not intimidated into voting for a union they might not otherwise choose.” That letter is dated August 29, 2001, so what we have is a Democrat leadership that supports a secret ballot for Mexican workers but not American workers. This is a “new direction” for America that is a huge step backwards.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 at 2:02 pm and is filed under Politics, Labor .