H.R. 800, dubiously named The Employee Free Choice Act because it allows the monitoring and pressuring of employees into voting for unions, was passed by the House yesterday.

If the Board finds that a majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for bargaining has signed valid authorizations designating the individual or labor organization specified in the petition as their bargaining representative and that no other individual or labor organization is currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit, the Board shall not direct an election but shall certify the individual or labor organization as the representative described in subsection (a).

Elections would be secret ballot. “Signed valid authorizations” are not. Here’s how Roll Call 118 went down:

John Boehner (R) - No
Steve Chabot (R) - No
Paul Gillmor (R) - No
David Hobson (R) - No
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D) - Yes
Marcy Kaptur (D) - Yes
Dennis J. Kucinich (D) - Yes
Steven C. LaTourette (R) - Yes
Deborah Pryce (R) - No
Ralph Regula (R) - No
Tim Ryan (D) - Yes
Jean Schmidt (R) - No
Zack Space (D) - Yes
Betty Sutton (D) - Yes
Pat Tiberi (R) - No
Michael Turner (R) - No
Charles A. Wilson (D) - Yes