This would do away with the secret ballot when workers are deciding if they want to be unionized.
The legislation also introduced the secret ballot for parliamentary elections to prevent voter intimidation by employers and landowners.
It would preserve the secret ballot aspect of choosing union representation, but would give employers less time to fight.
They're also ready to remove barriers, such as the secret ballot, in order to coerce workers into joining unions.
The secret ballot has been a test of loyalty for members of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's Popular Party.
He received 387 votes in the secret ballot, taking him over the 336 votes needed to secure an absolute majority.
The secret ballot did not become universal until the late 19th century.
The secret ballot, permitted under Spain's law, was an attempt by the opposition to draw out members of the Popular Party with anti-war sentiments.
Organisers say 20, 000 students will be eligible to take part in the secret ballot, which will use the question proposed by the Scottish government.
Proponents of the secret ballot say this would allow the members to vote according to their consciences, whether or not they have been bribed.
The committee is also questioning whether candidates should be allowed to make a speech before MSPs take part in the secret ballot to elect them.
During the decades that reformers were lobbying for judicial elections, the secret ballot was thought to be more subject to political corruption than voting openly.
They were widely tipped to win the International Rugby Board vote but they controversially lost out to New Zealand in the second round of the secret ballot.
Japan were widely tipped to win the International Rugby Board vote but they controversially lost out to New Zealand in the second round of the secret ballot.
Once they have voted, they tend to say, wait a minute, this is the secret ballot box and I'm not going to tell you how I actually voted.
The ostensible prime vehicle for this offensive is "card check, " which would do away with the secret ballot when workers are choosing whether or not to join a union.
The groups say that because the bill would do away with the secret ballot voting that allows employees to choose a union, it would pressure individual workers to sign on.
But opposition MPs refused the secret ballot, fearing that such a procedure would allow the MMD to buy off individual votes, safe in the knowledge that identities would remain anonymous.
There are concerns over the viability of the July 26 date -- some are calling for a postponement till November -- as well as over the impartiality of the National Election Commission and major loopholes in the laws governing the secret ballot.
The White House's support of card check, which would do away with the secret ballot for union-organizing elections, and of forcing mandatory arbitration on companies that can't reach an agreement with their unions would artificially increase the cost of labor and hamper job creation.
People will often sign a pro-labor petition because they've been pressured to do so but will vote against the proposition in the subsequent secret ballot.
Democrats and the AFL-CIO are hoping that if they dump the unpopular secret ballot ban from card check, they can get to their magic number of 60 Senators.
The newly-introduced system, the "open secret ballot system", allows each voter to stand and witness the ballot box opened, the votes counted, the results declared.
The panel will reconvene on Friday 3 December 2010 to select the top three and the winner by secret ballot.
The politician defeated Peter Roffey in the final round of voting, held as a secret ballot in the States.
The 15-member board selected the proposed sports for 2016 by secret ballot over several rounds, with the sport receiving the fewest votes eliminated each time.
But the proposal to elect select committee members by secret ballot rather than through the nomination of party whips was blocked by a single cry of "object" from the Labour backbenches and will be debated and voted on next week.
Then a secret ballot of the Conservative parliamentary party is held.
Meanwhile, among the many initiatives on ballots Tuesday, four states -- Utah, Arizona, South Carolina and South Dakota -- approved a measure that will guarantee workers the right to vote by secret ballot on whether they want union representation, according to CNN projections based on exit polling.
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