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

A couple items worth keeping an eye on:

• A former NLRB chairman weighed in with thoughts about the significant changes needed in the Employee Free Choice Act. Also of note from the San Francisco Chronicle: He “cautioned that it is an ‘urban myth’ that labor law alone can ‘restore the middle class.’ Other factors, he said, include globalization; imports from low-wage countries that ‘decimated union-organized manufacturing;’ the rise of undocumented workers and part-time work; the growth in services and ‘union lethargy.’”
• The Las Vegas Sun reports “Card check might be yielding to other goals” (also noted here)
• Leading card check proponent SEIU is now aggressively using the term “majority signup” for card check since the term has become toxic on Capitol Hill
• The editors of National Review weigh in: “With or without card-check, EFCA is a bare-knuckles power play by Big Labor and the Obama administration
  

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The news has been fast, furious, and sometimes confusing as the Employee Free Choice Act was introduced. As noted below, 60 Senators have not chosen to co-sponsor the bill. Here’s a brief sampling of the reaction:

• The New York Times editorial page appears to have been tasked with providing the headline: “Fierce Lobbying Greets Bill To Help Workers Unionize,” and noted, “Labor leaders hoped a two-pronged strategy would get at least every Senate Democrat to back the bill: President Obama’s full-throated support and letters, e-mail messages, phone calls and visits to inundate lawmakers.”
• Atlantic reporter/blogger Marc Ambinder says “Employee Free Choice Act Fight Is On”
• The Marxists (really) argue: Employee Free Choice Act Promotes Democracy
• Teamsters president James Hoffa said, presumably with a straight face that “I can’t think of a better way to restore stability to middle-class families than to strengthen unions” and asked “Since when is the secret ballot a basic tenet of democracy?”
• Over at the LA Times’ top of the ticket: Here comes card-check/EFCA: Another bipartisan bridge to nowhere
• Politico: EFCA Sponsors Got $1.7M Each From Labor
• DC Examiner: Card Check could also mean wage and price controls
• NAM director of employment and labor policy Keith Smith told The Hill: “Many senators, especially those who are in-cycle, are taking a very close look at this legislation… They are understandably very apprehensive about putting their name on a bill that will ultimately cost jobs.