Another Card Check Bankshot?

Monday, March 8th, 2010 by admin

Mark Tapscott writes:

Big Labor is covering its bets against the likelihood that President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress won’t be able to deliver Card Check to kill the secret ballot in workplace representation elections. The sidebet is at the three-member National Mediation Board.

Never heard of it? Well, the NMB was established by FDR during the New Deal to mediate labor-management disputes in the railroad industry, then had its regulatory purview expanded to include the airline industry. The NMB has the power to impose compulsory arbitration when labor and management are unable to reach a settlement within 30 days.

Two of the three members now on the NMB are former union officials, Harry Hoglander and Linda Puchala, who came to the board from, respectively, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) unions. President Obama appointed Puchala.

Certainly something to keep an eye on.

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