was in a training session for my real job much of yesterday, so I only caught the tail-end of yesterday's bloggers' conference call with Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) about what he and others call the Employee Forced Choice Act.Its real name of course is the Employee Free Choice Act, or the EFCA.
One of the questioners asked about the possibility if the, which would eliminate secret ballot elections and force many businesses into binding arbitration--forced choice--becomes law, what would the odds be of a more conservative Congress overturning it?
Long odds, Ensign warned, at least in the short term. With the requirement of 60 votes to get anything of substance getting passed in the Senate, and a Democratic president for at least the next four years, we could be stuck with "forced choice" for a long time.
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Minority business groups coming out against card check
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Card check update: "A mortal threat to American freedom"
Blagojevich and union "card check"
Card check bill a minefield
Employee "free choice" may drive economic uncertainty
CBS refuses to air ad denouncing union "card check"
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Dems' secret ballot hypocrisy
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