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July 17, 2009

Senate Dems Drop Card-Check Provision from Union Bill
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Senate Democrats have dropped a key proposal from the Employee Free
Choice Act, a bill that would make it easier for workers to join unions.
On Thursday, Senate negotiators said they would drop a card-check
provision that would require employers to recognize a union if a
majority of workers signed cards in favor of unionization. Labor groups
had made card-check their top priority in the bill’s passage. But the
provision came under intense opposition from business lobbyists, swaying
several so-called “moderate” Senate Democrats.



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