Oh, it DOESN'T Take Away Secret Ballots? Um... YES, it Does.

Add to this informative video a recent Barron's editorial by Jim McTeague and we can see more of why card check is un-American and anti-democratic.

McTeague makes some fantastic points in his piece at Barron's, here are a few excerpts.

Obama's stance on the Employee Free Choice Act, introduced in Congress last week and likely to be retooled many times before coming to a vote, is outrageously backward for a man who says he's a progressive change agent. With the stroke of a pen, our president would reverse one of the great, unsung civil-rights movements in the history of Western democracies, a battle that set liberal reformers against corrupt, vested interests who controlled the general electorate through bribery and intimidation, and consequently accrued outsized political and financial power. The secret ballot (the anonymous ballot used today in the elections of modern democracies) finally broke the corrupt grip of these despicable men. They no longer knew with certainty if the voter whom they'd either blackmailed or bribed had cast his ballot as promised. Paying for votes immediately became a mug's game.

Unions want to destroy the rights of the worker.

However, University of Chicago law professor Richard A. Epstein -- who wrote a pro-business paper on the topic for the very conservative, pronouncedly Republican Hoover Institution at Stanford University -- predicts that the card-check option likely would displace the secret ballot in all cases. Why? Currently, unions will not file to have an organizing election until they accumulate signed authorization cards from well in excess 50% of a targeted unit's workers. "They need that cushion, because they know that worker defections will take place during the course of any election campaign in which management can present its own case."

He adds, "It follows, therefore, that no rational unions would risk the election if they have in their possession authorization cards from just over 50% of the members of the unit they seek to represent." With open ballots -- the card-check system -- union supporters could coerce and intimidate employees who otherwise might change their votes in the course of a campaign.

As I said in a reply to one of our more extremely left leaning posters here on TheNextRight, the best example is the poll taxes imposed on black voters in the South during Jim Crow days. Writers of the laws could give a wide-eyed, innocent demeanor claiming that the poll taxes didn't stop anyone from voting. They were right to the letter of the law. But these racists knew that it would effectively stop blacks from voting anyway.

So in this day, the card check act is the new Jim Crow poll taxes pretending that secret ballots are still available while effectively eliminating them in truth.

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