Secret Ballot

Five states are part of a national movement to reject a proposal to do away with the secret ballot rights of employees considering forming unions and Missouri is one of them. While the movement is aimed primarily at rejecting a Congressional effort known as card check - a proposal to recognize a union as the employees' bargaining representative without benefit of a secret ballot vote - it would extend to protection of all secret ballot voting. The grassroots movement is known as SOS Ballot - Save Our Secret Ballot. Two of the SOS Ballot Missouri Advisory Board members were on hand at the Secretary of State's Office on Tuesday to announce the proposal - outgoing Senator John Loudon

Thegoal is to collect enough signatures to place a proposed Constitutional Amendment on the 2010 ballot