Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., joined Indiana's four other democratic house members to vote in favor of the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" which would overhaul 70 years of labor law and strip away employees' rights to federally supervised, secret ballots in union elections.

[The] proposed legislation is known as the "Employee Free Choice Act," which would require that all employers recognize a union when a majority of a company's employees sign union authorization cards in the presence of union organizers. This proposed legislation would eliminate secret ballot elections that had, since Congress created The National Labor Relations Board, ensured workers the ability to express their preferences in secret and without any coercion.

The final roll call in the House is here; the bill passed the House 241-185.