Union members: Say goodbye to fair elections
By Michael Ruhl, University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC, Michael Ruhl sat down with Ernest Istook, Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Istook spoke on the threat to the secret ballot in union elections, which he said would be a product of the Employee Free Choice Act, currently under consideration by Congress. The secret ballot is where a voter’s choice is kept confidential. He said that “once you put a chink in the protection of the secret ballot election, who knows what’s going to be next”, saying that in the future public office elections could be threatened in the same way. Istook called it a “power grab for labor unions”. (05:44)
March 2, 2009
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