With Republicans vowing to filibuster the Employee Free Choice Act – labor has received the support of at least one very important Senator. Jesse Russell reports:

Presidential candidate and Illinois Senator Barack Obama was in Illinois on Saturday morning vowing to make sure legislation that would make it easier for workers to join union will pass the Senate. Obama told a gathering of 1500 labor supporters, “we will pass the Employee Free Choice Act. It’s not a matter of if it’s a matter of when. We may have to wait for the next president to sign it, but we will get this thing done.”

President George W. Bush has already expressed that if the bill does reach his desk it will be vetoed. Democrats are not expected to be able to pull the needed number of Republicans it would take to pass the bill with a veto proof two-thirds majority. Senator Obama is running for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008.