Card Check Comes to UW

Nice. 

Research assistants at UW System campuses would form unions by signing authorization cards rather than using secret ballots under a provision in the new state budget.

This was a change wanted by the Teaching Assistants’ Association, a UW-Madison graduate workers union, said Peter Rickman, president of the group.

“The notion of free and fair elections with secret ballots is a myth,” Rickman said.

Um, perhaps Rickman should go to Iran or Eastern Europe and tell them that secret ballots are a bad idea.