The Chattanooga Times Free Press wonders “Who Questions the Secret Ballot?”
It’s a good question. The fact is, the secret ballot is so engrained as part of our democracy it seems like lunacy to ditch it. But Big Labor is buying and trying.
Three companies that are investing in Right to Work Tennessee are Virnig Manufacturing, SP-Teri, and Faurecia.
Four companies investing in Right to Work Tennessee are Lodge Manufacturing, Steam Logistics, IMC Logistics, and Smith & Wesson.
No union, but especially not one with multiple top officials convicted in federal court of accepting bribes and embezzling workers’ dues money, should be allowed to impose unionization on workers by colluding with company officials to bypass a secret ballot vote. That’s why it is critical that any state incentive package includes a condition that the decision over whether to unionize the proposed Ford-SK Innovation Western Tennessee plant be made with workers having the full protection of a federally supervised secret ballot vote, and absent any backroom deal between company and UAW officials.