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At Cogitamus, there’s a good reminder of why the fetishization of the “secret ballot” preserves a balance of power that favors employers. I don’t suppose I’m making a unique point here, but it’s a shame that a voting mechanism first proposed by English chartists has now been so thoroughly contorted as to make workplace democracy vastly more difficult to achieve. The fact that employers are struggling to preserve a ballot system that actually enables and protects coercive practices — while making bosses sound as if they’re sturdy, mugwump reformers — pretty much says it all. I’m going to assume that someone who believes the current iteration of “secret ballot” is necessary to prevent pro-union misbehavior is also the sort who would believe that voter suppression is an appropriate means of keeping Foghorn Leghorn from stealing the next election.

And George McGovern’s opposition to EFCA almost makes me glad that Nixon defeated him.

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