Unions set to blast Dems for selling out on FAA reauthorization

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5. That's

ridiculous. From the OP:

To back up: Last fall, Obama and Senate Dem leaders won applause from labor for standing fast against the House GOP, which was trying to insert a union-busting provision into the FAA reauthorization. That provision would count it as a “No” vote when airline or railway workers failed to vote at all on whether to unionize. After Dems refused to budge, the House GOP backed down and agreed to a “clean” temporary extension.

This increased hopes among unions that Dems would again hold fast when the longer-term reauthorization was negotiated with Republicans.

A few weeks ago, Harry Reid announced a deal, authored by Senator Jay Rockefeller, that would nix the GOP’s desired union-busting provision; in exchange, the threshold required for triggering a union election would be raised from 35 percent worker interest in a union to 50 percent. Labor was mostly quiet on this deal, but now, after closely examining its implications, officials say they’ve concluded it could be disastrous.

So they didn't budge on the other provision, but they compromised to create a different obstacle, from 35 percent to 50 percent?

That's absurd!