ALG condemns Rep. Hartzler for voting against workers’ rights to secret ballots in union elections

May 11, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson issued the following statement blasting Rep. Vicky Hartzler for voting against an amendment to HR 5326 that protects state laws guaranteeing secret ballots in union certification elections from being challenged by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): “Rep. Hartzler has to explain to her constituents why she thinks it’s okay for pushy union bosses to be looking over workers’ shoulders when they vote on union certification. The whole idea behind card check is to expedite unionization, and four states, Arizona, Utah, South Carolina, and South Dakota had the audacity to overwhelmingly pass state constitutional amendments that guarantee a secret ballot in union certification elections against such coercion. “Now, the NLRB has decided to sue two of them, Arizona and South Dakota. And under the amendment Rep. Hartzler voted against, the NLRB would have been prohibited from using any funds to litigate against any state on the question of secret ballot union elections, protecting employees from being bullied into joining unions. “Rep. Hartzler had an opportunity to stand with these states and worker rights against this assault by the NLRB to use the force of law to impose Big Labor’s agenda on businesses, workers, and states. In fact, Rep. Hartzler is not even a representative of either Arizona or South Dakota that is being sued, and thus had no reason to vote against this amendment, except to curry favor with local union bosses. Perhaps that is what really is at play here. If so, Rep. Hartzler has embarrassed herself and her constituents.” Attachments: “Secret ballot elections? Not if the NLRB has its way,” By Rick Manning, Director of Communications, Americans for Limited Government, Oct. 26, 2011 at http://netrightdaily.com/2011/10/secret-ballot-elections-not-if-the-nlrb-has-its-way/