Elective Influence

You know, even as a former union organizer, I've been opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act because it allows a union to bully workers into signing cards and not a secret ballot in order to make the union their bargaining agent.

Because the way I see it, why not just make elections happen faster?

Well, presumably they are now. Faster. Which means that the entire system is more fair. I mean, that seems to be the case on the face of it.

I'm a big fan of the secret ballot. It works both ways -- the employer can't force you to vote one way or the other and the union can't either. In fact, in some cases there's more than one union trying to organize a workplace.