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

David Hunt captures a response by Florida senatorial candidate Charlie Crist to the AFL-CIO on the sadly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act: “Everybody should have the right to have an opportunity to be able to organize. How, and the direct means by which, we do that is something we need to dialogue about, candidly. I want to make sure we do it the right way. I am here.” More about Mr. Crist seeking Big Labor’s support here.

It’s notable that one of the most explosive issues is finding its way into the heated political battle — but it’s Pennsylvania that is Ground Zero for the battle over the President’s agenda (including EFCA and card check), according to senatorial candidate Pat Toomey.

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.

Be sure not to miss Associated Builders and Contractors national chairman Jerry Gorski’s article from this weekend on the Employee Free Choice Act and Sen. Arlen Specter.

Gorski’s conclusion:

EFCA could cost up to 600,000 American jobs in the first year alone with millions more job losses to come, according to a study by Anne Layne-Farrar, an economist from the nonpartisan firm LECG consulting.

In light of this study, many Pennsylvania businesses would likely close their doors and workers would be unemployed if EFCA became law.

That is unacceptable.

With many businesses in the state already struggling in this economy, I don’t understand how Specter can justify his surprising reversal on this reckless legislation.

He needs to answer to Pennsylvania workers and businesses that stand to lose if this bill becomes law.

Want to know what the world would look like if the Employee Free Choice Act passed? Consider the response when union activists in Pennsylvania found out that opponents of Project Labor Agreements — special interest rules that really only allow unionize employees to work on public, taxpayer projects — were going to meet.

The Commonwealth Foundation reports:

While union members may enjoy these lucrative contracts, PLAs only end up costing taxpayers money and private contactors jobs. Why not give everyone a fair chance to bid on government contracts? This is why State Representatives John Bear and Stan Saylor were holding a press conference in front of the capital