Where There’s A Bill There’s A Way
Sunday, February 21st, 2010 by adminTop Beltway insider publication Politico is running a story airing some of labor’s grievances for not having its radical agenda foisted on the American public. As the purpose of this blog is to track, analyze, and opine on all things card check and all things Employee Free Choice Act, the article is certainly of interest to us.
Note this, in particular:
The Employee Free Choice Act didn’t even get a mention in the State of the Union, though Obama technically supports it. Senate Democrats like Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas have appeared to bend to fierce local pressure to oppose it. Still, the unions fight on: The act is “still one of our top priorities,” said AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale. “[We] still think it can be done.”
The union is continuing to push the legislation with state events, asking members to call and write Congress and lobbying legislators and making the case that stronger unions are part of a stronger economy.
Union officials have dumped too much of their credibility (and their members’ money) to walk away without anything they can claim as a victory and it’s clear they are still discussing methods of attaching EFCA language to other bills.
Whether they are successful depends on the level of vigilance shown by proponents of workplace democracy, who must also call and write Congress and lobby legislators to halt the assault on the free enterprise system.
