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

• Getting litmus testy in Arkansas: Politico reports, “Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Wednesday she would not agree to a fourth debate with Lt. Gov. Bill Halter until he takes a clear position on controversial card check legislation.” Local columnist Brummett says, “Ask him in a debate, senator.”
• More litmus test: It’s card check and education for unions in Florida
• FYI: Judge upholds secret ballot measure for SD ballot

Given the ebbs and flows of news related to the horrifically misnamed Employee Free Choice Act and its apparent waning in likelihood of passage on Capitol Hill, we awoke this morning to find a decent group of mentions of card check going around.

Here are a couple worth checking out:

• Unions Toll Bell for Card Check
• Coloradans join U.S. Chamber’s bid to sink union-organizing bill
• Unions Regroup After Stunned by Losses Under Obama, Democrats

As we’ve said before, this issue refuses to go away completely, which means attention can’t be diverted from it completely.

Two brief bits of news for you this fine morning.

First, in Nevada, “Group plans petitions on secret ballots, paycheck deductions.”

Meanwhile, “Fearing lack of support, communications union bosses are attempting to rig election employees initiated to throw out unwanted union.”

It never ends, does it?

Truly important news regarding the grotesquely misnamed Employee Free Choice Act has been sparse recently, leaving any number of groups and outlets to chitter-chatter away about any gossip that goes through the mill. Herein the latest recap:

• NY-23: Scozzafava Flip-Flops on Card Check
• Senator Feinstein Opposes Employee Free Choice Act
• Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) Reiterates Opposition to Employee Free Choice Act

While national union leadership is sure to send this guy a quiet message to stay in line, the Boston Globe carries an important story about the exhausted hope labor officials have for Democrats in Washington, D.C.:

ABC’s own member company Miller and Long’s Brett McMahon is quoted in a great story that recaps that union-payoff angle to the Employee Free Choice Act fight:

Labor groups spent around $450 million on the 2008 election, almost exclusively for pro-union Democrats, and to great success. A Democratic Congress could help expand union rolls through the “card check” provision in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which removes the secret ballot in union elections. That provision has hit a bump in the Senate, however, and may not appear in a final version of the labor reform bill, which Obama has promised to help pass.

As it stands now, EFCA allows the government to inject itself into certain labor disputes further through binding interest arbitration