In a huge gift to Big Union, the Obama administrations two Big Union appointees – Linda Puchala and Harry Hoglander outvoted, by 2-1, Bush appointee Elizabeth Dougherty to make it much easier for workers in the railroad and airline industries to unionize.

Under the previous rules – 75 years in existence – if a company had 100 employees 51 of them would have to vote “yes” to unionize. The new rules stipulate that if a vote to unionize is held but only 10 of those 100 employees show up to vote only 6 “yes” votes will be required to unionize.

Big Union, a massive special interest of Democrats, pushed hard for this change because it will make it much easier to expand their membership numbers which have declined greatly for the previous 60 years from its peak in 1950 at 30% to just 12.3%, or 15.3 million, in 2009.

In the U.S. House of Representatives, this rule change was supported by only 44% of elected officials and in the Senate it was supported by just 39% of Senators.