Outlook grim for labor's agenda in Congress | Business | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California: "The failure to get one of President Barack Obama's nominees confirmed for a seat on the agency that rules on labor disputes has cast heavy doubt on whether the proposed law changing the way unions are organized has any chance of passing.
Last week, only 52 senators voted to bring the name of Craig Becker to the floor for a confirmation vote. That was considerably fewer than the 60 votes Democrats would need to end debate in the Senate and force a vote.
And, experts in the fields of labor law and politics say, if Becker's supporters were not able to bring his name up for a vote -- to say nothing of confirming him -- it signals that it's likely the Senate will not pass the Employee Free Choice Act, the law that would make it easier for a workplace to be unionized.
'I think that right now the current version of EFCA is a dead issue,' said Tom Lenz, a partner with Cerritos-based law firm Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo and a former staff attorney with the labor board's Los Angeles office."
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