Have you heard much this year about the Employee Free Choice Act?

I mean, since the Democratic primaries, when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were still slugging it out for the union votes in those northeastern states.

If you’re not familiar with the legislation, opponents say it would strip workers of their right to a government-supervised, private-ballot vote and replace it with a forced-unionization system.

The AFL-CIO, which is advancing the legislation, says it would restore workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union.

Huh?

With the exceptions of 12 Republicans who voted for the bill and two Democrats who voted against it, the House split along party lines when members voted on the bill in March 2007.

But there’s at least one more crossover against the bill. He’s got a famous name—and now, a television commercial.

It’s former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, who is the new face of a nationwide ad campaign against the bill. Apparently, EFCA opponents believe there is enough of a chance that Obama will become president that they need to redouble their efforts to thwart the bill’s chances in the Senate.

Read about it and see the ad here.