From a summary of the AFL-CIO debate, underline added:

Rep. Dennis Kucinich said his administration would be known as the "Workers White House." Sen. John Edwards said he would "walk onto the lawn of the White House and say how important labor unions and organized labor is to the future and economic security of this country." He bragged that he had "been with you in the crunch," walking picket lines "200 times" and helping 23 different unions organize workers. Clinton vowed to "be the president who signs the Employee Free Choice Act into law." Obama noted that he worked after college with displaced steelworkers. "Everybody in this stadium knows the work I've done with Illinois labor and that's the kind of work I want to do around the country."

According to Wikipedia:

If it becomes law, the Act would require the U.S. National Labor Relations Board to certify a union as the exclusive representative of employees without an election where "a majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for bargaining has signed valid authorizations." ....

Critics contend union administered elections, with a lack of Federal oversight, will lead to coercion on the part of union organizers.

Not like that has ever happened before.

Opponents of the EFCA also assert that the measure would not protect employee privacy. Representative John Kline (R-MN) has stated:

"It is beyond me how one can possibly claim that a system whereby everyone – your employer, your union organizer, and your co-workers – knows exactly how you vote on the issue of unionization gives an employee 'free choice .... It seems pretty clear to me that the only way to ensure that a worker is 'free to choose' is to ensure that there's a private ballot, so that no one knows how you voted. I cannot fathom how we were about to sit there today and debate a proposal to take away a worker's democratic right to vote in a secret-ballot election and call it 'Employee Free Choice.'"

I tend to think democratic processes and secret ballots are a good thing. But apparently what's good enough for the American people isn't good enough for those who might end up being governed by union rules. Let's be clear: this is not a move to increase the ability of workers to make free, uncoerced choices. They call it the "Free Choice" act while taking away employees' current right to express their feelings with an uncoerced, secret ballot.

Sounds pretty Orwellian to me.

To any Democrats out there: Do you favor such a move? Why?