Card Check Round-up
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 by AdminA couple items worth keeping an eye on:
- A former NLRB chairman weighed in with thoughts about the significant changes needed in the Employee Free Choice Act. Also of note from the San Francisco Chronicle: He “cautioned that it is an ‘urban myth’ that labor law alone can ‘restore the middle class.’ Other factors, he said, include globalization; imports from low-wage countries that ‘decimated union-organized manufacturing;’ the rise of undocumented workers and part-time work; the growth in services and ‘union lethargy.’”
- The Las Vegas Sun reports “Card check might be yielding to other goals” (also noted here)
- Leading card check proponent SEIU is now aggressively using the term “majority signup” for card check since the term has become toxic on Capitol Hill
- The editors of National Review weigh in: “With or without card-check, EFCA is a bare-knuckles power play by Big Labor and the Obama administration
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