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A Balance for Labor
THE HOUSE has passed organized labor's top legislative priority, a measure that would make it far easier for unions to organize: They could get a majority of workers to sign cards rather than having to win a contested election. The proposal's prospects of getting past the Senate's 60-vote hurdle are dim, however, and its chances of surviving the threatened presidential veto are dimmer. That is a good thing: the Employee Free Choice Act would take a playing field tilted too far in the direction of employers and tip it way back in the other direction....