Posts Tagged ‘Cal Cunningham’
Card Check: “Honing” or Evading In North Carolina?
Democratic hopefuls in this year’s North Carolina election for Senate took the opportunity to debate last night in an attempt to distinguish themselves. Union issues were high on the agenda, including the relative stances of State Sen. Cal Cunningham and Secretary of State Elaine Marshall on whether public employees should be bargaining with the state and, of course, the sadly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act.
The News-Record reports that Marshall didn’t get a question about EFCA and its card check provision but has supported it in the past. It also adds:
And although he supports the Employee Free Choice Act, Cunningham said he doesn
Card Check: He Loves It, He Loves It Not
The AP is reporting the local and International Teamsters bodies are split over the endorsement of a North Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate who’s position on the Employee Free Choice Act is about as mirky as the bill is troubling (for beginners, that’s a lot).
What was the offensive statement that got Cal Cunningham’s union support pulled? He told the AP “I support elections. I think that what we’re about to see emerge from the Senate, if anything, protects elections as the sole way for there to be unions created. That’s something that I would support.”
That seems pretty reasonable to us, and it suggests a union official who doesn’t think that is good enough has an agenda that needs to seriously be examined.
