On Thursday, Republicans will meet behind closed doors and hold a secret-ballot vote on who will represent their party later this month as the next Speaker of the House. Whomever they select, he should make it a priority to give workers the same kind of private choice.

The next speaker can do this by bringing to the floor the Employee Rights Act. This law, introduced over the summer by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., would reform outdated Depression-era labor laws and restore to workers the choice of whether they want union representation in the workplace.