The big corporate talking point against the Employee Free Choice Act is that it allows card check approval of unions rather than mandating secret ballot elections. But check out today's headline after workers at Trump's Plaza casino voted by 2-1 to join the United Auto Workers:

Trump Challenges Dealers Union Vote

Trump is delaying recognizing the union by trying to get the NLRB to throw out the election results-- a typical move which is part of the usual endless delays that thrawt unions even when a vote happens.

In this case, Trump is actually complaining that because a majority of the workers signed cards asking for a union, that unfairly biased those voters in the upcoming election. So now, corporate leaders not only don't want card checks to require companies to bargain with unions, Trump wants workers to be required to keep their decision to support the union quiet before the election on threat of disqualifying the vote. What a joke.

These kinds of delaying tactics are constant in union elections. As American Rights at Work documented in a recent report:

These guidelines not only allow the appeals process to drag on for years, but mandate that the workplace be governed as if employees voted against organizing for the duration of the appeals process.

Dictatorships have secret ballots, yet voters in the old Soviet Union, Saddam's Iraq or other dictatorships regularly voted for the leadership, fearful of retaliation. Workplaces are de facto economic dictatorships in our economy, where dissidents can be economically executed (fired) on the spot for any viewpoint the boss objects to. So worshipping secret ballots in such a situation is ridiculous.

What is needed are systems to recognize worker desires for a union as quickly as possible, without giving employers the legal tools to delay and harass shop floor leaders. Card check is the best documented tool for achieving that goal.

Let's be real. If corporations actually believed in secret ballot elections on principle, they would use it for their shareholder elections. But they don't so taking them seriously when they mouth off on the subject for union elections is just falling for propaganda by folks that, if EFCA is defeated, will immediatley go back to subverting union elections as they have for decades.