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Harkin hints 'card-check' bill could move during lame-duck session of Congress

 Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) suggested Thursday that Democrats might attempt to move "card-check" legislation this year, perhaps during a lame-duck session.  Read the full article...


NLRB’s Becker is already under investigation

 When it comes to President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill, what Big Labor wants, Big Labor gets. Unions spent $400 million electing Democrats in 2008, so they demanded to select which fox...


The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy

Democratic House members are so worried about the fall elections they're leaving Washington on July 30, a full week earlier than normal—and they won't return until mid-September. Members gulped...


S.D. Attorney General Ballot Explanation for Voting by Secret Ballot Upheld by South Dakota Supreme

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Text of Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's speech

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, spoke to the United Auto Workers convention today via satellite. A transcript of...


Florida House of Representatives Passes Resolution

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Labor union bosses don't want you to keep secrets

Labor union bosses are on the verge of passing legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act and denying employees the right to cast their ballot in private in union organizing elections. Rather...


Letters to the Editor: On secret ballots for union organizing

Union effort to eliminate secret ballot an affront to democracy Vice President Joe Biden's recent visit to Miami Beach to meet with union leaders wasn't such a secret. But the labor bosses...


Adam Hasner: Florida amendment would protect workers' secret ballot

Labor union bosses are on the verge of winning legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act and denying employees the right to cast ballots in private in union organizing elections. Rather than...


Adam Hasner: Your right to a secret ballot is under attack

Vice President Joe Biden's recent visit to Miami Beach to meet with union leaders wasn't such a secret. But as the labor bosses wined and dined at the posh Fontainebleau Hotel, with its 10 pools...


Save Our Secret Ballot Chairman Istook Responds to Jimmy Hoffa

Washington, DC - Earlier today, a link to a Teamsters press release appeared on Twitter: http://twitter.com/efca. In this release, Teamster president Hoffa praised the House and Senate sponsors of...


SOS Ballot Secures Public Vote in Utah for Secret Ballot Constitutional Amendment

SOS Ballot Secures Public Vote in Utah for Secret Ballot Constitutional Amendment 1st State to Give Voters Right to Constitutionally Secure Secret Ballots Strongly Backed by Gov. Huntsman, Sen....


Missouri Legislature Passes Secret Ballot Referendum

Missouri Legislature Passes Secret Ballot Referendum   JEFFERSON CITY — The House has approved 83-74 a proposal that would require secret ballot in some elections, including those for...


Sending an SOS to Save Our Secret Ballot

Thanks to the secret ballot process, all of our other key American rights are protected. Without secret ballots, we would lose: Freedom from intimidation Freedom of choice Freedom...


Congress Expected to Vote to End Secret Ballot

Payback to Big Labor's $100+ Million in Campaign Cash WASHINGTON -- After having spent in excess of $100 million in this November's elections, what does Big Labor want in return? They want the end...


Growing Movement For State Constitutional Rights To Secret Ballots For All Elections

A movement to counter Big Labor's actions against secret ballot elections is mounting - aimed not at Congressional lobbying, but at amending state constitutions to protect the right to a secret...