Bummer: NLRB Loses Court Challenge Over Secret Ballots

Just one unlawful act of many by President Obama this year delivered control of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to his union boss backers. His intent was to stack the board with hard left radicals to make it easier for them to unionize the private sector.

He knew, however, that his extreme picks would never pass the Senate's review, which is the duty assigned it by the nation's founders in the United States Constitution.

Therefore, in an act unprecedented in all of American history, President Obama unilaterally declared the Senate in recess over a long weekend earlier this year (though it clearly was not) and named his radicals through recess appointments.

Fortunately, some of the courts have not been cowed:

A federal government agency [the NLRB] lost its court challenge of an Arizona constitutional amendment that guarantees workers in the state can vote by secret ballot on whether to join a union.


...NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce said Thursday that while he was disappointed by the judge’s dismissal, he was “very pleased that the court recognized that these choices are guaranteed to employees by federal law and cannot be taken away by the states.”

...Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne said in a statement that the judge’s decision is a “stinging rebuke to an outrageous National Labor Relations Board attack” on the sanctity of the secret ballot.

That's right: the radical, hard left Obama NLRB is doing its best to eliminate secret ballot elections. Never mind that unions require photo IDs for their own election votes, as you can see in the photo above.

We all know why the secret ballot is anathema to Democrats: card-check elections allow workers to be intimidated by organizers so that more companies -- whether their workers like it or not -- will become unionized.

Because that's worked out so well for GM, Chrysler, California and Illinois.

Remember in November.