New Poll: Americans Fiercely Defend the Right to Union Secret Ballot Elections
According to a new poll by American Solutions:
The right to a secret ballot is at the core of American democracy.
But as millions of Americans cast their votes privately for the next president, privacy in the workplace is under attack.
Last year, Congress introduced a bill (H.R. 800) that would strip workers of their secret ballot rights when deciding whether or not to join a union. The bill, known as the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), would replace the secret ballot with a card-check system that would make workers' votes public and subject to intimidation by union organizers.
The EFCA is the top legislative priority for union bosses, so we decided to ask the American people their opinion.
We discovered that 79% of the American people support a worker’s right to a federally supervised secret ballot election when deciding whether or not to join a union.
The tri-partisan agreement to defend this right is overwhelming, as 77% of Republicans, 82% of Democrats, and 79% of independents believe in protecting private ballots. Support for private ballots was so broad it also spanned every subgroup examined, including majorities of every age, race, geographic group and both genders..click to continue.
