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Oh, and by the way, it's simply untrue that the Employee Free Choice Act will "do away with the secret ballot," or any such nonsense -- it permits employees to choose to vote via secret ballot -- or not.
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And
why would any employee choose not to vote by secret ballot?
You see, the really neat thing about the secret ballot is that when the election is over,
no one knows how you voted. Hence, there can be no retribution against you.
It took the union about 4 tries over 10 years to finally get in my place of employment. There was absolutely no pressure from the company to vote no. If fact, they frequently made offers of extra benefits attempting to bribe us. But with the secret ballot, no one really knew who voted for or against the union, only that it finally made it.
If there had been a "card check" policy, after the first failed election, the union would have known which employees needed convincing for future elections and the employer would know which employees they should send down the road before the next election.
Keep the ballots
secret. There is absolutely no reason to made them public.