Posted on 07 April 2009. Tags: Blanche Lincoln, Employees Free Choice Act, Filibuster, Primaries, Unions
Enough. Now that she has thrown another obstacle in the path of the Employee Free Choice Act, Blanche Lincoln must face a well-funded primary opponent in 2010. And it’s got to be the labor movement that recruits and funds that candidate–or the rhetoric about how important the Employee Free Choice Act is will be […]
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Posted on 11 January 2008. Tags: AFL-CIO, Card Check, CTW, Employees Free Choice Act, Employers, Unions, Workers
A reader sent along a link to a reprint from HR Magazine, a pro-management newsletter. The article looks at the state of labor. I didn’t find most of the analysis very interesting or new particularly the section about the AFL-CIO versus Change To Win, and the management quotes were pretty standard fare. This little snippet, […]
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Posted on 11 January 2008. Tags: AFL-CIO, Card Check, CTW, Employees Free Choice Act, Employers, Unions, Workers
A reader sent along a link to a reprint from HR Magazine, a pro-management newsletter. The article looks at the state of labor. I didn’t find most of the analysis very interesting or new particularly the section about the AFL-CIO versus Change To Win, and the management quotes were pretty standard fare. This little snippet, […]
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Posted on 19 April 2007. Tags: Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Class Warfare, Employees Free Choice Act, Ken Salazar, Mark Pryor, Unions, Workers
Supporting the Employee Free Choice Act should be a no-brainer for every Democratic senator. So, we need to ask: why are four Democratic Senators not co-sponsoring the legislation (S1041)? Are they anti-union? As of today, every Democratic senator is on-board as a co-sponsor of the bill (as are the two independents, Bernie Sanders and Joe […]
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