[lbo-talk] Class enemy prepares to eliminate card-check

[Michael Dawson]

> Michael Dawson:
> 
> > If we had half a brain, we would welcome the idea of secret ballots
> > -- secret to everybody, bosses included.
> >
> > Of course, if you've spent five minutes inside the hierarchy, there's
> > one other spot where lefties ought to be ramming home secret ballots
> > -- in state and national union elections.
> 
> Michael, we're not talking about internal union elections. We're talking
> about card-check recognition. There's no such thing as a "secret" ballot
> in
> a union recognition election, and anyone who's been involved in a campaign
> knows this. Kevin LaPalme summed up more succinctly than I did why the
> analogy between secret ballots in union recognition elections and secret
> ballots in political elections just doesn't apply. But as I mentioned
> before, triggering a NLRB union recognition election in the first place
> requires that workers sign cards, so they're already stating their intent
> to
> form a union -- hardly a "secret" ballot.
> 
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> John Lacny

I agree it's complicated.  But I want to know why this topic only comes up
in this format.  I realize we're fighting for survival in some senses, but
it's all defense and no offense in the unions.