ELIMINATING the secret ballot makes voting easier and more fair???????????

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Explain to me how eliminating the secret ballot in elections to decide whether or not to be represented by a union makes the elections easier and more fair. Because that's what Dick Durbin and others are trying to say is true, and in the best interest of workers.

[Donzo]

I have wondered the exact same thing.

Me thinks it's dem spin in order to satisfy the union lobby.

[bustr]

In the bad old days the unions indimidated, ruined lives and killed workers who didn't vote to bring in the union. Part of the overhaul of unions at the federal level was the secret ballot. I guess Durbin would love to have us turn in our federal ballots with our name and social security number attached so his operatives can visit those who voted against him.

[lazs2]

democrats are in the pocket of the unions...

Republicans are in the pocket of the NRA.

I'm gonna vote republican.

lazs

[Sabre]

I haven't yet seen any kind of reasoned explanation of why doing away with secret ballots for unions is a good idea.  I would like to see both presidential candidates be asked to defend their position on this bill, and explain why that position is consistant with democracy in general.  How can one claim to support democracy and yet be in support of a bill that strips away one of the pillars of the democratic process?  I know we're talking about unions and not goverment, but the basic principle of a secret ballot are absolutely essential to both.  Both involve a surrender of individual power for collective power.