If you oppose the secret ballot in union elections, well you just flunked the litmus test proving your are an American free market patriot

Here is what we are up against - understanding that "we" includes freedom loving patriots who want the right of self-determination as relates to the work place. Our national unions are increasingly socialistic, bordering on Marxist. Richard Trumpka, the head of the AFL-CIO , is a big time socialist administrator who has openingly worked for a national tax to benefit union retirement funds. He wants a tax on union and non-union workers alike, to benefit the entitlement crowd that exists within many union entities.

Now, they - the unions - are threatening to sue individual states if these state legislatures ** pass bills that guarantee the secret ballot process as workers decide to unionize or not. Workers should have the legal right to work for union representation, but the actual vote to unionize needs to be a secret ballot to protect against union thugs from retaliating against those who oppose the union push.

I was in heavy construction for years. On several occasions, we worked jobs that brought union thugs to the job site, thugs who sabotaged our equipment and threatened our workers. That is the way these larger blue collar unions work. There were times when we sat on our equipment with guns, through the night, to protect what was ours. When on strike, if you cross their picket lines, you invite harm to your person or your vehicle or your family . . . . . period. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying through the two teeth they have in their lower jaw.

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**It is the AP reporting this circumstance.

Excerpt: WASHINGTON – The National Labor Relations Board on Friday threatened to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah over constitutional amendments guaranteeing workers the right to a secret ballot in union elections. The agency's acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, said the amendments conflict with federal law, which gives employers the option of recognizing a union if a majority of workers sign cards that support unionizing.

The amendments, approved Nov. 2, have taken effect in South Dakota and Utah, and will do so soon in Arizona and South Carolina. Business and anti-union groups sought the amendments, arguing that such secrecy is necessary to protect workers against union intimidation. They are concerned that Congress might enact legislation requiring employers to allow the "card check" process for forming unions instead of secret ballot elections.