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

Continuing to follow news that “card check” is out of the Employee Free Choice Act, the Beltway is still aflutter over what comes next. Here are a couple views.

The Associated Press reports binding arbitration is now the focus:

The willingness of some Democrats to drop the “card check” portion of a union organizing bill has led opponents of the measure to intensify their attack on another major provision: Binding arbitration if a new union and management can’t agree on a first contract within 120 days.

“We suspected from the beginning that the binding arbitration was packaged with the elimination of the secret ballot in order to create a straw man they could take down later,” said Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.

A small group of senators led by Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa is working out a compromise of the Employee Free Choice Act, one of the most polarizing measures in Congress and the top legislative priority of labor leaders, who want to reverse years of declining union membership.

But … wait … apparently card check isn’t really dead. The Washington Examiner’s Kevin Mooney reports:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is still scheming on behalf of labor bosses to force a vote on Card Check that would short circuit legislative procedures, according to the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) …

“Forced card check coupled with the job-killing binding interest arbitration provision suggests that the EFCA still remains politically toxic, despite efforts to produce what appears to be a one-sided ‘compromise,’ ” said Brian Worth, chairman of the CDW. “Apparently ‘compromise’ means whatever Big Labor can get passed notwithstanding their ultimate plan for denying workers secret ballots.”

Elsewhere: “The National Right to Work Committee took to the airwaves yesterday to pressure Virginia Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner to vote against proposed ‘card-check’ legislation.”