Moderate Dems opposed to Employee Free Choice Act

http://www.counterpunch.org/macaray11122008.html

November 12, 2008

Will Labor Have a Seat at the Table
An Obama Litmus Test

By DAVID MACARAY

With Barack Obama and company poised to take over the White House, organized labor and business groups are paying close attention to the status of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). If enacted, the EFCA would allow workers to join a union simply by signing cards. In other words, if a majority of the employees check “yes,” the workplace automatically becomes a union shop.

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Not only do unions currently have to petition the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board), and go through all the bureaucratic rigmarole, they have to withstand formidable propaganda and disinformation campaigns waged by management, not to mention stalling tactics that can last for months or longer. Some union certification votes have been delayed, literally, for years. So much for workers having a “free choice.”

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Recently, there has been conjecture over the prospects of the EFCA becoming law. While everyone agrees that President Obama would undoubtedly sign the measure into law if it reached his desk, many have expressed serious doubts as to whether the bill would get that far, despite significant Democratic gains in both the House and Senate.

What’s the basis for these doubts? Simply put, not enough moderate Democrats want this thing to pass. Yes, it was these very Democrats who gave the EFCA their blessings, and yes, it was they who voted for the bill the first time around. But that was when the EFCA had a slim chance of passing and—had it passed—was guaranteed to be killed by a presidential veto.

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accompanying Democratic sweep, I think it would be very unwise for any Congresspersons to cross them....
I am sure they will be paying for it when their re-election time comes around.

Let's hope President Obama does something for working people and promotes this bill.

The people believe they voted for politicians that will battle for them on issues such as this.

What are the Democratic party politicians doing to the right of the people, while telling us that they have to move to the right because the population is to the right?