Providence Journal editorialist Froma Harrop hopes that President-Elect Obama declines to pay organized labor back with EFCA.  The conclusion to her column in yesterday's edition:

The argument for private voting is evident, which may be why supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act spend so much time vilifying its foes — the Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart, even McGovern — rather than explaining its merits.

With Democrats ascendant in Washington, labor leaders will have ample opportunity to fight the Chamber. And I hope they unionize the daylights out of Wal-Mart, the fair, old-fashioned way. But they should leave the brave McGovern alone.

Whatever a new President Obama and his supercharged Democratic majorities owe labor can be paid in other ways. The ridiculously named Employee Free Choice Act really is disturbing and undemocratic — and can be easily caricatured as such by the Republican opposition. It is also bad PR for unions. If they have so much to offer, why are they afraid of a secret ballot?

Read the whole thing here.