{"id":638,"date":"2009-01-22T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2009-01-22T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T23:01:34","slug":"secret-ballot-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/secret-ballot-for-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"secret ballot for employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scsenategop.com\/category\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Senators Join Fight To Protect Workers\u2019 Rights (from www.scs<\/a>enategop.com)<br \/>\nJanuary 22nd, 2009<br \/>\nSenator Ryberg: \u201cAn individual\u2019s vote must be sacred and should not have to subject him to intimidation and harassment.\u201d<br \/>\nColumbia, SC \u2013 January 22, 2009 \u2013 During a time when unions have forced the Big Three near bankruptcy and American taxpayers are bailing them out, Congressional Democrats are pushing a plan to grow unionization across the nation. Last week South Carolina Representative Eric Bedingfield filed a plan to protect South Carolina\u2019s workers from union intimidation and today South Carolina\u2019s Republican Senators joined the fight.<br \/>\nDeceptively named the \u201cEmployee Free Choice Act,\u201d the liberal plan has been more appropriately dubbed the \u201cSecret Ballot Elimination Act\u201d by US Senator Jim DeMint. The legislation would strip workers of their right to vote for unionization by secret ballot, opening them up to what State Senator Greg Ryberg calls \u201cintimidation and harassment\u201d by unions.<br \/>\n\u201cWhether it is to elect a president or vote one\u2019s preference on union organizing, the sanctity of the ballot box is critical,\u201d Senator Ryberg said. \u201cAn individual\u2019s vote must be sacred and should not have to subject him to intimidation and harassment.\u201d Ryberg is chairman of the Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee in the State Senate.<br \/>\nSC Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler and Majority Whip Danny Verdin are the primary sponsors of the Senate bill.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve seen what happens when unions control the economy. It\u2019s called Detroit. And we\u2019ve seen what happens when unions fail. Congress bails them out on the backs of hardworking taxpayers. South Carolina must continue to be a right-to-work state and we must protect our workers\u2019 rights during this tough economic crisis,\u201d Peeler said.<br \/>\nThe legislation will be filed on Tuesday and protects workers\u2019 rights through an amendment to the SC Constitution stating, \u201cTo preserve and protect the fundamental right of individuals to vote by secret ballot, where local, state, or federal law requires elections for public office or ballot measures, or requires designations or authorizations for employee representation, the right of individuals to vote by secret ballot is guaranteed.\u201d<br \/>\nSenate Sponsors include:<br \/>\nMajority Leader Harvey Peeler<br \/>\nMajority Whip Danny Verdin<br \/>\nPresident Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell<br \/>\nSenator Greg Ryberg<br \/>\nSenator Larry Martin<br \/>\nSenator Paul Campbell<br \/>\nSenator Wes Hayes<br \/>\nSenator Lee Bright<br \/>\nSenator Larry Grooms<br \/>\nSenator Mike Rose<br \/>\nSenator Mike Fair<br \/>\nSenator Ronnie Cromer<br \/>\nSenator Kevin Bryant<br \/>\nSenator Shane Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Senators Join Fight To Protect Workers\u2019 Rights (from www.scsenategop.com) January 22nd, 2009 Senator Ryberg: \u201cAn individual\u2019s vote must be sacred and should not have to subject him to intimidation and harassment.\u201d Columbia, SC \u2013 January 22, 2009 \u2013 During a time when unions have forced the Big Three near bankruptcy and American taxpayers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}