After Card Check Comes … More Union Agenda
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 by AdminGlenn Spencer of the U.S. Chamber takes a look at the laundry list of, well, dirty laundry, that could be making its way through the process on behalf of Big Labor as the apparent fate of card check gets darker:
Although Congress has yet to move on Card Check, they have moved forward with other legislation to pay back their union supporters. Numerous bills have been introduced to increase class action litigation against employers and expand the Family and Medical Leave Act. And the health care reform bill also included copious perks for organized labor. As Anna Burger of the SEIU explained, unions can “tak[e] advantage of elements in the health care bill to organize health care workers.”
The fight over Card Check was a high-profile affair, full of drama and headlines. Yet much of the work to enact the union agenda has been going on behind the scenes, day in and day out in the trenches. America’s job creators would do well to pay attention and get involved, because it is this attritional warfare that will determine organized labor’s ultimate success or failure in fulfilling its goals.
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