A Look At Card Check’s Fate

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 by Admin

The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel is running a great interview with Glenn Spencer of the Workforce Fairness Initiative about the state of play and likely future of the Employee Free Choice Act. See:

Editor: I have heard that the card- check provision has been removed as part of the discussions you described.

Spencer: A story was floated before the Congressional recess in The New York Times that suggested that this group of senators had agreed to get rid of the secret ballot provisions of EFCA. However, that story was quickly shot down, most notably by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The AFL-CIO also said that they wouldn’t be supportive of a bill that did not allow them to bypass secret ballot elections. Therefore, I’m not sure that there actually is an alternate bill that’s even close to being ready to go, but obviously we will monitor that very closely.

Even if The New York Times story were right and the card-check provision was definitively eliminated there are other elements in the so-called compromise which would make the bill unacceptable to business.

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