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Card Check: Roundup

Admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:29:36 +0000

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

Card Check Reading To Kick Off Your Week

Admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:50:55 +0000

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:

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

Card Check: Across The Transom

Admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:25:06 +0000

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?

Employee Free Choice Act: Who Supports, Who Opposes

Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:38:46 +0000

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:

Are Unions Getting Itchy For Card Check Payoff?

Admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:27:10 +0000

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.:

Employee Free Choice Act, The Union Payoff

Admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:49:27 +0000

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

Twin Freaks

Admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:35:56 +0000

The Education and Labor Committee Republicans point to an important story in the Wall Street Journal with an intro:

The perils of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act are well known: it

Card Check: All The News That’s Fit To Link

Admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:12:31 +0000

AFL-CIO declares: “Fight for Employee Free Choice Continues”
Big Labor’s Chilling Alternative to Card Check
CEA’s Smartbrief: Tell your senator to vote NO on cloture!
Labor was

Disappearing Support for the Employee Free Choice Act?

Admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:21:12 +0000

A while back the Chamber of Commerce’s blog noted the self-serving support of the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act by a group of entirely unionized contractors — not an unbiased source. Now the Union Label Blog reports: “it looks like the AFL-CIO blog has pulled this story because now there is a 404 notice at the link that previously had this story.”

Hmm. It could be a tech glitch or an editorial decision or a thousand other things, but it’s good nonetheless to see a little less support for EFCA.