Big Labor received a huge snub this week as 2 Democrats sided with Republicans in stopping the appointment of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Despite the failure of the Senate to put Becker up for an up or down vote, Labor is already screaming for Obama to empanel Becker anyway via a recess appointment. As Stewart Acuff from the Utility Workers Union stated recently,

It [sic] we aren’t able to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, we will work with President Obama and Vice President Biden and their appointees to the National Labor Relations Board to change the rules governing forming a union through administrative action…

Big Labor isn’t going away, and is working at many levels to find ways to force people into unions. Iowa Governor Chet Culver signed an executive order forcing certain construction projects into the union camp, despite the fact that 89% of construction workers in that state do not belong to a union, and that costs typically rise on such projects when unions are involved.