Card Check: The Vote Nears, Contact Your Senator

[Omaha Steve]

Edited for clarity. This is an anti union site's opinion. Extra editorial deleted. I myself am FOR the H.R. 800, the Employee Free Choice Act.


http://blog.nam.org/archives/2007/06/card_check_the_4.php

June 18, 2007
Card Check: The Vote Nears, Contact Your Senator

As of 5 p.m. today, Majority Leader Reid has yet to file a motion to proceed on H.R. 800, the euphonized Employee Free Choice Act, which means that the cloture vote is likely to occur on Thursday. (They're voting on the House version, not the Senate's, for reasons of procedural ease.) By most accounts, debate will be kept short since the outcome is all but certain -- the failure to gain the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture.

That's good on one hand, because the bill dies this session. It doesn't have to go to the President for his veto.

But it's bad, because a few Senators may justify a yea vote with the traditional excuse, "Well, no big deal, it's not going to pass anyway." Even so, once lawmakers go on the record with a yes vote, it's harder to change their minds in future years; labor's strategy is a multiyear one based on maintaining Democratic, pro-union majorities in both chambers and electing a Democratic president in 2008.

So complacency is the enemy, right? Therefore ....to urge your Senator to oppose this assault on the secret ballot, please click here.


This is not copy righted.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. Steve,

I can't tell from your post if you are for or against this bill. It seems to me to be a good thing to have the bill pass. If the secret ballor thing worked so well, wouldn't we have a lot more Union members?
John
Shop Steward, SEIU, Local 925

[Omaha Steve]

2. Oops

I'm all for the Employee Free Choice Act. I hope everyone calls their Senator, even though it looks like it will not get the 60 needed votes to advance at this time.

For those that don't know, I was fired on Feb. 22nd of this year. My local is fighting to get my job back through arbitration.

Omaha Steve
Steward AFSCME Local 251

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. Wow,

that labor pains website seems like a front for union busting.

[Omaha Steve]

4. It is!

Checking to see who is reading. :-) The name is a tip off. This comes up under Google all the time. Even the Google ads at the top of this page have some anti-union or union busting company's. Keep up the pro union attitude!!!

I also post stories that don't put unions in a good light, if they are fair.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

5. Well,

I know we could find examples of unethical behavior amongst union members and officials but not out of line with what would be found aynwhere else. If I have a complaint about unions in general it's that they don't have a very good PR program.
Good luck on your arbitration.