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

This morning, the Wall Street Journal’s great columnist Kimberly Strassel examined the current state of play for the Employee Free Choice Act. Her conclusion? A worried “Business Beats Card Check—For Now.” Her concern, and rightly so, is that talk following the recent announcement that Sen. Arlen Specter will not support EFCA in its current form that talk of compromise could split the business community. She writes:

In theory, his decision to join his 40 GOP colleagues in a filibuster kills the bill. In reality, the business community just moved into a far more dangerous phase. Big Labor spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama and other Democrats and get card check; it won’t give up. And the unions know the corporate world has a history of fracturing.

All of which explains why, in the past weeks, the new talking point is “compromise.” The union goal is to gin up support for a watered-down version of “card check,” one that nervous Senate Democrats such as Arkansas’s Blanche Lincoln or Colorado’s Michael Bennet (both up for election) — as well as a Republican or two — would feel comfortable putting on the floor for debate. Once the unions fly past a filibuster, they could then “fix” the bill back to the way they like it.

This certainly backs up concerns held by Associated Builders and Contractors. We’ve been hearing troubling whispers of compromise — most notably a deal for “quickie elections” in which NLRB elections would be held so quickly that the employer still doesn’t have time to tell his/her story. This is one everybody has to stay vigilant on; we certainly will be.

Tags: Kimberly Strassel, Protecting Secret Ballots, Sen. Arlen Specter