Big Labor’s Cockamamie Campaign Against Secret-Ballot Elections for Workers

As a remedy for the alleged evils they associate with workplace secretballot
votes, which will be discussed shortly, Mr. Sweeney and his lieutenants
support S.1513, legislation introduced by Big Labor U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer
(D-N.Y.) that would effectively deny workers the freedom to vote in secret-ballot
elections if union organizers were opposed.

Under S.1513, employers would be forced to recognize a union as the
monopoly bargaining agent of all employees in a “unit” if 50.1% of them signed
union authorization cards.3 Experience shows that many employees who would
never cast a vote for a union into a secure ballot box will sign pro-union cards or
petitions while union organizers are watching