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Union issues often fall predictably along party lines. However, when you find an ultra=liberal like former Democrat presidential candidate George McGovern agreeing with Republican presidential candidate John McCain, you know you have an unusual issue before Congress and the American people.
Such is the case with the erroneously named “Employee Free Choice Act” which would strip the right to a secret ballot from every American worker involved in a union election and eliminate choice for workers. The unusual alliance of left and right opposing this undemocratic power grab of a bill derives from a shared support for a cornerstone of our democracy — the right to a secret ballot and the right to keep private how one chooses to vote. Nothing less than saving the right to vote is at issue. In a recent speech, Sen. McCain recently pointed out that Sen. Obama, who voted for the bill “wants to take away the fundamental right of workers to have a secret ballot when voting to be part of a union.” For factchecking purposes one could consult George McGovern to confirm McCain’s statement.
In August in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, McGovern, a liberal icon, raised alarm about the Employee Free Choice Act [EFCA] which passed the House of Representatives last year with far too little attention paid to the threat to workers this bill would impose. McGovern wrote that the measure “runs counter to ideals that were once at the core of the labor movement. Instead of providing a voice for the unheard, EFCA risks silencing those who would speak.... Under EFCA, workers could lose the freedom to express their will in private, the right to make a decision without anyone peering over their shoulder, free from fear of reprisal.”
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