GOP Sure They Can Block Unions' Aims

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Supporters of allowing unions to form without a secret ballot election won a small victory Tuesday when an influential senator said he wouldn't block the bill, but it still seemed destined to fall to a Republican Senate blockade.

Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., announced that he would vote not to block the Employee Free Choice Act.

Specter noted, however, that his vote would not mean that he would have supported the bill's passage — only debate of bill so that "we may consider a great many very important and complex issues."

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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.

If McConnell somehow fails, the White House says President Bush will veto the measure.

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