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As a remedy for the alleged evils they associate with workplace secretballot votes, which will be discussed shortly, Mr. Sweeney and his lieutenants support S.1513, legislation introduced by Big Labor U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) that would effectively deny workers the freedom to vote in secret-ballot elections if union organizers were opposed.

Under S.1513, employers would be forced to recognize a union as the monopoly bargaining agent of all employees in a “unit” if 50.1% of them signed union authorization cards.3 Experience shows that many employees who would never cast a vote for a union into a secure ballot box will sign pro-union cards or petitions while union organizers are watching

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