Jobs Bill Could Contain Card Check

At first, this report from the Las Vegas Sun sounds as though conservatives have mostly won the fight against Big Labor to keep the Obama administration from stripping the secret ballot from organizing elections.  They pushed hard on ObamaCare and appear to have lost that battle.  No one in Congress has touched the Card Check bill as people grow more angry over employment losses.  Unions themselves have slipped in standing with the American electorate to their lowest level of support ever recorded.  With their political power waning, conservatives have focused more on the ObamaCare debate and the lack of action by Democrats on the economy.

However, deeper within this report lies a new strategy by the unions to use the latter to get its Card Check legislation out of Congress (emphasis mine):