Senate rejects union election bill.WASHINGTON -- By a 51-48 vote, the U.S. Senate denied consideration June 26 of the controversial Employee Free Choice Act, which would have allowed labor unions labor union: see union, labor. to organize workplaces without a secret ballot secret ballot n. 1. A type of voting in which each person's vote is kept secret, but the amassed votes of various groups are revealed publicly. 2. See Australian ballot. Noun 1. election. Sixty votes were needed. The AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. vowed to continue lobbying for the measure, with hopes of gaining greater support after the November 2008 election. Dick Titus, executive director of the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Assn., said, "[This] vote was a victory for employees and their fundamental right to a secret ballot, free of coercion coercion, in law, the unlawful act of compelling a person to do, or to abstain from doing, something by depriving him of the exercise of his free will, particularly by use or threat of physical or moral force. or threats. The cabinet manufacturing industry is competing in a global marketplace where much of the competition provides no worker rights and is subject to few of the regulations and taxes U.S. companies must satisfy. A favorable vote would have been the veritable nail in the coffin for many U.S. companies." |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion