Workplace Freedom
When it comes to unionizing, workers should be free of intimidation. The Goldwater Institute’s Save Our Secret Ballot effort is ensuring workers have anonymous ballots in union votes.
Case Background:
The secret ballot's primary virtue is that it allows citizens to vote their conscience without coercion or fear of retaliation. McLaughlin v. Bennett involves a labor union's challenge to an upcoming November 2010 general election ballot measure that would amend the Arizona Constitution by making secret ballot elections a fundamental right in all government-administered elections. In June 2009, the Arizona Legislature passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 1026, which proposes the following constitutional amendment:
PHOENIX—Arizona’s three pension funds for government employees have predicted they will pay more in benefits to retirees over the next three decades than they will collect from worker paychecks and investments.
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