Nice. Spew talking points much?
Saying that labor unions as a whole want to get rid of secret ballots is an ignorant smear. Citing the wikipedia EFCA article--which says in its first paragraph that the purpose is to make it easier for employees to organize and join labor unions--is just silly.
And there's bound to be conflict between employers and employees, whether the employees are organized or not, and whether the organization is a previously organized labor union. I personally think that labor unions are outmoded, and that only worldwide unions are effective. The obvious tradeoff is corruption of worldwide organizations, as demonstrated with multinational corporations.
It's not that unions want to eliminate the secret ballot. They want to allow for authorization cards to be recognized as a valid alternative.
The rationale behind providing an alternative to a secret ballot is that most workplaces which benefit from union representation do not facilitate a secret ballot. Think it over: If you were put in charge of administering a secret ballot, what would be on your To Do List?
You may be accustomed to public elections with secret ballots run by someone else. That doesn't mean that it's easy to set up and run a secret ballot. Further, the employer is not interested in a union, and so is not inclined to help with the secret ballot.
All unions aren't helpful. All employers aren't fair. There is no single solution, even to the same problem in different places.
