Unions, businesses battle over union bill

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-day report on the Employee Free Choice Act, its implications for Montana, and the positions of the state’s congressional delegation.

HELENA — In the coming weeks, Congress likely will be debating a controversial bill that would make it easier for worker to organize into unions.

Both labor and business are calling the Employee Free Choice Act the most significant change in U.S. labor law in six decades, the Washington Post said, but that’s the only aspect of the bill they agree on.

By Charles S. Johnson of The Standard State Bureau

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