An Aug. 5 CNSNews.com article by Fred Lucas claimed that President Obama “pledged his support for a card check bill, which would eliminate secret ballots in elections to unionize workplaces.” Lucas went on to write that the bill “replaces the secret ballot by allowing union organizers to publicly ask workers to sign a card in favor of unionizing.”
In fact, the bill Lucas is writing about, the Employee Free Choice Act, does not “eliminate secret ballots.” It eliminates the part of the law in which employers are the only ones who can demand a secret ballot in a union election. The bill gives employees the right to make a choice of approving a union through either a “secret ballot” election process or the non-secret ballot “card check” process.