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Lede: The battle to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and take employer intimidation out of union organizing could be decided within a couple of months. Doug Cunningham reports.

By Doug Cunningham

As big business continues to pour tens of millions of dollars into a forceful campaign to deny workers a meaningful right to organize unions, labor is battling to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
AFSCME Legislative Director Chuck Loveless says that while the issue is in a state of play in the Senate he still believes the Employee Free Choice Act will be passed by the fall.

[Loveless]: “There are some very delicate negotiations that are going on right now in the United States Senate. I’m hopeful we
Could get a real bill through – that we could support – through the United States Senate in the next couple of months.”

Loveless echoes what others supporting the Employee Free Choice Act have said – that the Senate won’t move on the bill until Al Franken is seated as the new Democratic senator from Minnesota.