Card Check’s Chances For A Vote “Dim”
Friday, July 31st, 2009 by adminThe Wall Street Journal has the latest gossip about the likelihood of a vote on the Employee Free Choice Act this year:
Chances that Congress will vote on a union-organizing bill this year are dimming as lawmakers make health care and appropriations the top priorities.
Some Democratic senators have been trying for months to find a way around the bill’s most contentious provision, the “card check” rule that would let workers to unionize by simply signing up rather than running a secret-ballot vote.
While attempts at a compromise have made headway, less progress has been made on the bill’s other divisive element: imposing a government-appointed arbitrator to set contract terms — including wages and benefits — if companies and newly formed unions can’t agree within 120 days of bargaining.
Frankly, tha’ts pretty much par for the course as rumors ping back and forth from side to side. But the irony of the union-busting, union-raiding, employee-harassing Service Employees International Union claiming to stand up for workers is a bit too rich to let pass:
Members of the Service Employees International Union are expected to deliver petitions signed by 18,000 members to Congress, arguing that card-check should be part of a final bill. SEIU president Andy Stern said having a majority of workers sign cards is “the fairest way for workers to negotiate for better job security and wages, given the intensity of employer harassment and intimidation.”
Given the union’s history, we shudder to think how they collected those signatures.
Tags: SEIU, State of Play, Wall Street Journal
