were see-through<\/a>, meaning union bosses could automatically throw out votes opposing the union boss line. Worse, because the outer envelope contains the voter’s name, union goons would also know which members voted which way.\n<\/p>\n\nNo wonder union bosses complain the secret ballot doesn’t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now we know why union bosses don’t believe in the secret ballot: they don’t really know what a secret ballot looks like.<\/p>\n
\nFilm crew union IATSE recently conducted a vote of its members to ratify its contract proposal with Hollywood producers. The union bosses sent each member a large packet containing the proposal, a ballot, and two reply envelopes.\n<\/p>\n
\nAfter marking the ballot, members were instructed to put the ballot in a white envelope (which does not include any identifying information), and then put the white envelope in a blue envelope (which does include identifying information).\n<\/p>\n
\nThe problem? The white envelopes were see-through<\/a>, meaning union bosses could automatically throw out votes opposing the union boss line. Worse, because the outer envelope contains the voter’s name, union goons would also know which members voted which way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nHollywood Union's Not-So-Secret Ballot - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/hollywood-union-s-not-so-secret-ballot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hollywood Union's Not-So-Secret Ballot - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Now we know why union bosses don't believe in the secret ballot: they don't really know what a secret ballot looks like. 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