Opponents of the "right to work," the controversial legislation likely will not be the votes to stop the bill, but hopes to pursue an alternative tactic:
The Democrats will push today for a referendum in the November election on whether to adopt this measure, which prohibits employers and unions to negotiate contracts that require non-members to pay dues.
Minority Leader B. Said Patrick Bauer, D - South Bend, that "the people of Indiana have the right to speak a piece by voting" in this topic.
The referendum is one of a series of amendments the Democrats have to ask the Indiana House Bill 1001.
Democrats, however, are not the only ones who want change. Have been made at least two Republicans in the Senate amendments to the Senate version of the bill, including an exemption for the construction industry. The Senator Brent Waltz, R - Greenwood, who wants an exception, joined Democrats in opposing the bill in committee.
It was scheduled to discuss the Senate version, SB 269, but was postponed to take this issue until after the end of the work of the House of Representatives on the measure.
Trade unionists filled the Statehouse corridors throughout the session to express their rejection of the bill, saying it will lead to lower wages for all, and the promotion of "parasites" for employees who have union representation and the benefits without the need to share the costs.
Made Governor Mitch Daniels and legislative leaders of the Republican Party and business groups and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce on the issue of high priority. They say the bill gives workers the option for the possible return of the Union financially and they say that removing an obstacle to economic development, as some companies will not come to any of the 28 countries that do not have books.
While Republicans are not all in support of this proposal, and the majority are very strong in the House and Senate approval, only a matter of time. Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate 60-40 37-13.
These figures are the reason the Democrats are pinning their hopes on the referendum.
The last state to pass "right to work", Oklahoma, after the approval of the public through a referendum.
Democrats say that Republicans supported giving voters the final say on other issues. In previous meetings, voters approved a referendum to allow local government to exceed the ceilings imposed on the property, or let the rivers casino in the local area. This session, there are bills that would allow referendums on whether to raise taxes on public transport plan or to remove the Central Indiana County Commissioners for County Executive.
Said Rep. Jerry cart, and the Caramel Republican who has been trying for several years on the Indiana 23 with the law "right to work," said he opposed the referendum, but in this case.
"But equally important, first of all that was chosen to take such decisions," he said. "We had an opportunity to examine all the information, while the voters will be making the decision largely on recordings of 30 seconds (in the TV ads) that may or may not be true, and paid tens of millions of dollars to people he knows."
Indiana voters are already seeing these ads.
Opposed to some of the ads with the law and paid by the unions, including the AFL - CIO, the Teamsters and United Auto Workers, a coordinating group called "The person who works as you are."
Pay and other ads, arguing for the Daniels law, by a group called the Opportunity Fund and the state of Indiana. Was not the source of this money and publicly disclosed, and not the information required under the law.
The idea of war advertising and working groups are still concerned about the idea of the referendum.
Wondered if the work supports the "right to work" ballot issue in November, Nancy Guyotte, chairman of the Central Information, AFL Indiana, made it clear that it is not the first option.
"We want the bill was defeated in the whole earth," he said.
Although the referendum might be better to get direct approval of the law, Guyotte said: "It will be expensive for us to take this to the general public."
"For us, this is the law that must be defeated."
Lawmakers and even two hours before going to the house session at 1:30 pm today to propose amendments to the bill. Monday, the legislature closed for Martin Luther King Jr., the House amendment not made public.
Among those presented in the Senate, including two Republicans sought. One, the Senator John Waterman, R - Shelburn, Indiana governor his salary, if the per capita income, and opponents of the "right to work," he predicted.
More likely to get a serious discussion, if the Senate takes the changes made to the draft law, is treated by the waltz, Greenwood, Republican, to exempt the construction industry.
The waltz was the only Republican to join Democrats in opposing the bill in committee and quoted construction sector is the reason.
"I have not heard one person (in the construction industry and construction) told me that the" right to work "closely related to his decision to come here or not come here," said Waltz.
Is the only industry that employers and unions agree that it should not be treated as factories or other companies. In fact, a draft law in 2011, a vehicle-free building and construction industry in order that the passage more likely.
This year, however, said vehicle opposed to an exemption from the law, employers fear that only lead in the proceedings before the courts on the grounds that he was being treated not all the same. In addition, he believed that federal law and the construction industry is different ", and retain the right of employers to hire exclusively through union hiring halls."
Said Mike Kerr, president of the Alliance Building Contractors of Indiana, the industry should not be treated the same, since they are not the same.
"In the construction industry, and we also decide whether employers or non-union," said Kerr. "They choose the Union that we need a mobile workforce ... and need to be trained, and in Indiana, building our industry (unions) have done a good job of training their friends."
In the construction industry and construction, and the social partners have "more of a partnership than you think you have in some cases the manufacturer," said Kerr. "It should not be in this (legislation), because in fact they have a dog in the fight."
Democrats, however, they want this war, oppose the legislation.
This is why it is unlikely that any exception to join the Republicans in the construction industry and construction of the project.
"That's something I'm not in favor," said Rep. David Niezgodski, D - South Bend, a member of the Union plumbers and plumbers. "This is all in one and one for all, and this is achieved and no more than an attempt to divide and conquer."
It was not clear whether Republicans Monday will see any change on their own to the bill, although it is almost certain to reject all the amendments the Democrats.
Sen. Carlin Yoder, Middlebury Republican who is the main sponsor of the bill in the Senate, said he would call on the amendments until it sees the changes, if any, made at home.
"If they pass a good law, there is no need to do it twice," said Yoder. "If they agree on the law, which does not feel comfortable, and then follow our country."
Sen. Karen Tallia, D - Portage, is expected to be limited in the Senate to support the House bill. Do not make any additional changes mean that the draft law, which has been on the fast track legislation, will go to Daniels, who became the law instead of returning to the House of Representatives.
While the Democrats want to see a variety of changes, Tallia not holding my breath.
"I think (Republicans) will receive the form in which they received in a session (Commission) in the Senate," said he was "not at all."
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