Arlen Specter announced today that he would vote against cloture and – sort of goes without saying – is opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act. Even though I am home fighting the flu I can still hear the cheers from here. You can watch his speech here.
Specter says it is the most heavily lobbied issue he can recall in his Senate career. He also mentions his law review article (we’ve written about that before here – now would be a very good time to read it if you haven’t already, and if you have read it before now would be a good time to read it again).
Specter states in his speech that he supports the idea of arbitration of contracts with “baseball arbitration” – i.e. limiting the arbitrator to awarding either one or another final offer. Specter refers to his law review article a couple of times and suggests that instead of EFCA he supports other amendments to the NLRA. So hold onto your hats – this thing is far from over.
