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"Card Check is Pronouced Dead" ; I’m really surprised this hasn’t gotten more publicity, especially here and FDL.
"Earlier this week it was acknowledged by labor officials and Democratic insiders that the EFCA (Employee Free Choice Act), as presently written, wasn’t going to pass. While the bill may be reintroduced in a different form, the crucial “card check” component has been pronounced dead. Although labor wonks across the country were disappointed by the news, most weren’t surprised by it.
Despite all the hoopla and anticipation, skeptics had predicted long ago that this ambitious bill, which would have provided working people with far greater access to labor unions, had virtually no chance of passing. Why? Because it was too explicitly “pro-labor.”
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EFCA, with or without card check, was a joke, unless its purpose was to unionize dry cleaners and greeters. American Axle and a host of other unionized shops are vivid examples of how companies simply close and go to Mexico or where ever when their employees get pushy. Meanwhile, the Democrats are blowing the domestic autos and the UAW to hell and back while they pretend to support unions. Unions need to get a clue because they are getting to be as dumb as evangelicals. “Of course we’ll still love you in the morning. Now give us your money and your votes, and then STFU and go away – until the next time their political party want to use them.
i don’t belong to a union, but i’m feeling pretty dumb right now for my support of dems over the years.
Don’t know why you disparage the idea of unionizing dry cleaners (Cintas?) and greeters (Wal-Mart?). Aren’t these workers just as entitled to collective bargaining rights and decent compensation as workers in steel or autos?
As a former labor union official and a Director of the California Democratic Party I am not surprised that EFCA is dead. The Democratic Party has not really supported labor since 1948. Labor unions can only depend upon themselves. Nothing that labor has accomplished has been without a fight. Goodbye middle class.
When Obama wants something he pulls out all the stops. When he doesn’t, it never comes up or is left to twist slowly on its own in the wind. Guess which one EFCA was.
And so far he hasn’t ‘pulled out all the stops’ for even ‘public option’.
I sure wish people would give up ‘hope’ and start taking him to task for showing himself as the politician he is.
While the card check provision may be dead, EFCA is not. It’s been widely reported that a compromise EFCA bill is being negotiated in the Senate. We’ll have to wait and see what they come up with, but it would be a mistake to think EFCA supporters have thrown in the towel.
Meanwhile, clever United Food & Commercial Workers Union organizers are circulating pamphlets to Wal-Mart workers with the slogan “Obama supports your right to a union.”
Does this mean we’ll have to cancel Labor Day in the fall?
Oh, take a look at this:
Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look
So, now we’re gonna get even more taken out of our hides. Believe it, they’ll all vote for this…..