Posts tagged 'card check'

In 2007 the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America campaigned to organize the card dealers at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, N.J. Days before the election, the union assembled federal, state and local politicians, Trump employees and union organizers for a mock card-check vote, broadcast by a local TV station that subsequently announce...

The site called "What Is EFCA?" is pretty gnarly looking, but it's offering a new take on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) with a somewhat interactive presentation called "Card Checked the Game." Behind the site and game, evidently, are two groups called Americans for Tax Reform and Alliance for Worker Freedom. No idea who they are.

Senator Tom Harkin, D.-Iowa, says compromise is in order to save the Employee Free Choice Act, specifying that the card check provision will no doubt have to be dropped. "Compromises are going to be made," said Harkin, 69. "It probably won't be card check [as part of the final law], because too many people are opposed to it now." Card check allows organizers to unionize a c...

As is their wont, the French reject American culture while embracing and perfecting it, in their own inimitable way. Take the example of unionization. France is widely unionized. You can hardly visit there without the garbage collectors or air traffic controllers or railway operators going on strike for this or that. They all work for publicly operated entities, which are in turn union strangl...

The AFL-CIO descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday in support of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), bearing a petition with a claimed 1.5-million signatures. The laborite love fest came a few days after Vice-President Joe Biden said "welcome back to the White House" to his union cronies and pledged support for the EFCA. However, though loudly dismissed by the AFL-CIO as bogus (anything that doe...