Card Check Effect

What happened in Indiana--things got ugly, women were harassed.

More: Peter Ferrara, The American Spectator:

Suppose to vote in state and national elections you weren't allowed a secret ballot behind a curtain. Suppose to vote you had to go downtown and vote in the baseball stadium, where your choices would be flashed on the scoreboard, before a howling mob. Your boss, and your co-workers, and your neighbors would all know who you voted for.

That is how the unions and liberal Democrats want to change the law in regard to employees choosing whether they want a union.

For decades now, employees have been able to vote in secret ballot certification elections to determine whether they really wanted a union in their work place. In about half of these elections, for many years now, the workers have said no to the union.[snip]

But there is more to this incredibly destructive legislation. Once a union is recognized by a workplace, the employer has 120 days to agree to a union contract. Otherwise, a government arbitrator will dictate a contract between the union and the employer covering the next two years.

In other words, once a union organizer shows up with union authorization cards signed by 51% of workers, the employer has effectively lost control of his business.