Archive for November, 2009
There’s No (Card Check) Santa, Virginia
Card check was the gift that kept on giving for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell.
Amanda Carpenter reports on “EFCA
“The NMB Didn’t Get The Memo”
The U.S. Chamber’s Mike Eastman has concerns about transparency at the National Mediation Board, a crucial entity in America’s workplace legal structure.
Top Labor Commie Loves Employee Free Choice Act
No, that’s not a slur. Political Affairs (“Marxist Thought Online”!) interviewed Scott Marshall, the Communist Party’s labor commission chairman, about a variety of fun subjects. One, of course, was the Employee Free Choice Act.
PA: Did you get any new information about where we are with the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act?
MARSHALL: The fierce determination for it is there, but I think most people in the labor movement have concluded that we have to win on healthcare first. Not coming out with a good bill on healthcare will greatly weaken the chances for the Employee Free Choice Act. I also think, however, both from the debate on the floor and the pre-conference discussions I was able to sit in on, that there is growing confidence that EFCA can be passed, but that it might not be as quick as they wanted
Card Check: Is Union Boss Collecting Cards At White House?
The most popular visitor to the White House is, drum roll please … Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union. He made his union a key supporter of the president and has set up a punishment PAC to keep pressure on Democrats for the Employee Free Choice Act and healthcare policy.
Stern’s 22 visits on White House logs make him the most frequent guest. Since he’s undoubtedly there trying to get the White House to buck public opinion and support card check, we wonder if Mr. Stern is running a card-signing campaign to gauge the president’s support and use that knowledge to use the “persuasion of power” he has referenced before.
