Deroy Murdock has a splendid column today in which he goes after the “Employee Free Choice Act.” Murdock’s key point is that by taking away secret ballot elections over unionization, the law would subject workers to enormous and often unconscionable union pressures.
Here’s the question someone ought to ask Shuler and all the others who voted for this egregious piece of special interest legislation: why shouldn’t unions have the same legal rules as any other service organization? Those who want its services sign up and those who don’t want them, don’t. Restoring freedom would require undoing that ugly relic of the New Deal, the National Labor Relations Act. This proposed legislation takes us even further away from the ideal of individual choice (not to mention privacy) despite its Orwellian name.
