CT: Which Candidate Can Be More Anti-Card Check?
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 by AdminWho can show more distaste for the Employee Free Choice Act? That is the central question right now in Connecticut’s Senate race:
U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon today slammed Republican opponent Rob Simmons, accusing him of flip-flopping on the Employee Free Choice Act.
The proposal, commonly known as “card check,” would permit workers to form a union if a majority sign pro-union cards, instead of voting by secret ballot. It is being pushed by union activists and their allies in Congress, over the objection of business groups that want it excluded from a bill intended to encourage job creation.
This has become quite the phenomenon: candidates using their lack of support — or outright opposition to — EFCA and its card check provision because they are so wildly unpopular. It has appeared as a central issue for candidates and voters in Virginia, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, and now in Connecticut (and probably more that slipped past us in the holiday rush).
All of which makes the case of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka’s called-shot of an EFCA home run — passage in the Spring — all the stranger.
How long will organized labor’s top executives continue to push a bad bill (and a bad political move, at that)? One can only surmise based on the mixed messages of Trumka and fellow traveler Andy Stern. But the longer this issue hangs out, the longer jobs and employee rights remained under threat … and the longer politicians can use their opposition to the bill to score some points back home.
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