What the bill does is eliminate the secret ballot of employees needed to unionize. A union is no harder to form with a secret ballot if the majority of employees are interested. The only way the bill makes it easier to form unions is that union officals can see who is voting against the union and intimidate them.
Yahoo makes it out to be that Republicans are mean.
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would allow labor unions to organize workplaces without a secret ballot election.
Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to force consideration of the Employee Free Choice Act, ending organized labor's chance to win its top legislative priority from Congress.
The bill would require employers to recognize unions after being presented union cards signed by a majority of eligible workers on their payrolls. Under current labor law, a company can demand a secret ballot election supervised by the federal government after being presented the union cards....
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