Why are labor unions opposed to secret ballots?

Question

just wondering but how come labor unions are opposed to secret ballots when workers decide on unionization?

Answer 1

Because they hate people having the freedom to choose.

Answer 2

Because it exerts much more pressure on the workers to vote to unionize if they know that their votes will be visible to everyone. In this time where union membership is dwindling, they need every bit of muscle they can muster to force places to unionize again. How else do you think that union leadership is going to maintain those royal lifestyles they lead?

Answer 3

The latest independent poll has found 53% of union members would prefer not to belong to the union. They are charged monthly reductions from their pay checks and HAVE no recourse where and when the union spends their money.

Answer 4

They aren't - that's bullcrap. Here's the truth:



http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/employee-free-choice-act/resource-library/lies--distortion-on-the-secret-ballot-20080730-596-84-84.html



Business special interest groups have launched a $120 million campaign to derail reform of the nation's broken labor law system by lying about the Employee Free Choice Act. Their only line of attack - that the bill somehow takes away so-called "secret ballot" elections for joining a union - is blatantly false.



The Employee Free Choice Act not only strengthens the current process for workers forming unions, but also provides for a more fair and democratic method for men and women to join unions.



Here are the facts to refute the opposition's fiction about the Employee Free Choice Act:



Fiction: The "legislation would end the rights of employees to secret ballot elections."

– Center for Union Facts



FACT: The Employee Free Choice Act does not abolish elections or "secret ballots." Under the proposed legislation, workers get to choose the union formation process—elections or majority sign-up. Under current law, the choice to recognize a union rests only with employers.



What the Employee Free Choice Act does prevent is an employer manipulating the flawed system to influence the election outcome. When faced with organizing campaigns: 25 percent of employers illegally fire pro-union workers; 51 percent of employers illegally threaten to close down worksites if the union prevails; and, 34 percent of employers coerce workers into opposing the union with bribes and favoritism.

Answer 5

Hey Obama favors this. He and Bob Casey are the best friends the Unions ever had.

Answer 6

It's SO much harder to know exactly which kneecaps to break, and families to harass when the ballots are secret.

Answer 7

They can't bully the workers when they don't know how they voted.

Answer 8

baseball bat shortages

Answer 9

Easier to know who you need to murder that way.