Having secured seven Republican signatures on their discharge petition, Democratic lawmakers just secured an imminent vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act — a union leaders’ pipedream that was considered too radical to pass Congress even under the Obama-era Democratic supermajority. 

This legislation would allow unelected, uninformed federal bureaucrats to set the terms of union contracts if the parties can’t reach an agreement within 90 days of negotiations and 30 days of mediation. The result could be lost jobs, failed businesses, and a dictatorial union contract process.