Warning! Card check isn’t dead

May 8, 2010 15:25


Big Labor’s bosses sort of got lost in recent months amid the hubbub about Obamacare and, more recently, reforming Wall Street, but they’re still out there, actively lobbying their Democrat friends in Congress and the White House, and pushing their agenda.

Washington Examiner Editorial

Big Labor’s bosses sort of got lost in recent months amid the hubbub about Obamacare and, more recently, reforming Wall Street, but they’re still out there, actively lobbying their Democrat friends in Congress and the White House, and pushing their agenda. That is why it is never smart politics to forget about things like the laughably misnamed Employee Free Choice Act — aka “card check” — because just when it looks like the bosses’ top legislative priority is dead, it’s not.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka provided a perfect illustration of this die-hard mentality earlier this week when he made clear that the union proposal to kill secret ballots in workplace representation elections is far from dead. After the Democrats took over Congress in 2006 and President Obama was elected in 2008, Trumka and his union buddies thought a card check victory would be a snap. The proposal passed the House, but public support began slipping and the bill stalled in the Senate, short of the 60 votes needed to get it to a final vote. Trumka frankly admitted as much this week, telling the Hill newspaper “I don’t know when we ever had 60 votes.” Then in January this year when Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., won the Senate seat long occupied by Ted Kennedy, union prospects for getting those 60 votes went from slim to none.

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