Employee Votes For Me But Not For Thee

James Sherk / September 10, 2009

The President has promised big labor that after health care reform, he will turn to their top priority … the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). This legislation effectively eliminates secret ballot elections and replaces them with publicly signed union cards. But while Obama is promising to deprive workers in the private sector of their right to a secret ballot, his own Administration admirably insists on upholding its own employees right to vote.

The Washington Times reported yesterday that employees of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) will be voting by secret ballot election on unionization later this week. The Obama administration ignored the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers’ (IFPTE) request to use card check and deprive LSC employees a private vote. (more…)