thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check

David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner takes a look at the positions of the Kentucky candidates for U.S. Senate. Rand Paul, noted son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, opposes card check while his opponent, Jack Conway, supports the anti-employee, anti-employer job-killing bill.

Of Conway’s support for the Employee Free Choice Act and prevailing wage laws, Freddoso writes, “Along with ‘card-check,’ that last one about ‘prevailing wage’ is political speak for: ‘Hi, I

Some good firsthand reporting from the team at NAM …

EJ Dionne of the Washington Post takes note of the Senate race down in Arkansas:

But Lincoln, like Specter, is in trouble partly because of flip-flopping, particularly during the health-care battle. Labor is also furious that Lincoln, who once co-sponsored the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) that would make it easier to organize unions, later turned against it.

If Halter wins, progressives will have a right to claim victory. But it’s not clear how liberal Halter is, and he avoids the label. He is for the public option on health care but has ducked taking a stand on EFCA because it “is no longer being discussed.”

That’s not the only state where EFCA will be a big deal. In his column, Dionne also addresses the Senate race in Pennsylvania, which is a key for the future of sound policy.

For political junkies, it’s back to interesting times for card check and EFCA.

We noted in our inbox, but sort of laughed off, this article by a top union president claiming that the negative reaction to the Administration decision to make it easier for unions to organize additional workers in the airline and railroad industries should mean, through some contorted logic, that employers and proponents of sound economic policy should actually support card check.

The logic — such as it is — is as follows:

The anti-worker-rights groups wanted the NMB to retain a different kind of election

Read this column from The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel and something becomes very apparent — if, as she argues persuasively, a new breed of anti-growth Democrats are pushing the party to the left — card check could be on its way back. So while it’s been pronounced on hiatus right now in Washington, it is not really dead. Just something to keep an eye on.

Keith Smith over at the National Association of Manufacturers points out some interesting tension between what Big Labor’s lobbying efforts say about the progress of the Employee Free Choice Act and the words of the top man pushing his top agenda.