The Employee Free Choice Act is still alive and well according to an editorial in today’s Investor’s Business Daily. Here’s the key point they make about the “morphing” card-check bill:
But it hasn’t stopped Big Labor. Card check remains its top goal, and instead of dropping a bad idea, it’s switching tactics.
Card-check supporters have begun a new lobbying effort that targets a few wavering senators including Democrats Dianne Feinstein, Arlen Specter and Mark Pryor. The idea is to put the squeeze on Congress instead of taking the case to voters.
It may be one reason why card check has morphed into new incarnations, the latest a “compromise” bill from Feinstein. She has proposed a mail-in card-check format, which still amounts to a denial of secret ballot. Curiously, Feinstein backed away from her own compromise Thursday, raising questions as to whether she was being manipulated and wanted out.
While the exact provisions of the derivative bill are still squishy (God forbid it includes mail ballot elections – the last one we were involved in had about a 20% participation rate…) there is little doubt that something is coming this summer.
