In an ideal world, a secret ballot election might be an ideal way to determine employees’ choice regarding unionization. In the real world, the union election process has too often become anti-democratic.

Employers’ power over employees and the workplace gives them overwhelming built-in advantages that no incumbent union has in a democratic political election. Employers bombard employees with anti-union propaganda in mandatory meetings, often one-on-one with employees’ own supervisors.

The Employee Free Choice Act would help allow employees to gain the collective voice in the workplace that many say they want and need to bargain for decent wages and working conditions.

Peer pressure is pretty powerful. If you are no longer able to have a secret ballot but in fact must stare down 3 or 4 Pro union people and say “no, I'm not signing that” then it becomes pretty hard to say no.

This is nothing more then strong arm tactics and quite frankly I'm surprised that many on the left here who support Unions would blindly support this obvious and transparent tactic.

Imagine if our elections were held this way. Democrats going door to door with their thugs while the GOP went door to door with their thugs getting us to vote for their candidate.

See, I can argue anything but the merits too.

If Mr. Hoover or either Mr. Roosevelt write articles too then I will be glad to comment on those articles.