Reply #12: Song remains the same...

[Earth Bound Misfit]

Back to the Future for EFCA?

In 1978, during Carter’s first and only term, unions came closer to strengthening the Wagner Act (NLRA) than at any other time since Congress enacted labor’s “Magna Carta” in 1935. An AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) -backed bill that would have speeded up representation votes, helped fired organizers, and penalized union-busting employers got filibustered to death in the Senate, after tepid White House lobbying on its behalf.

http://www.stateofnature.org/usLaborLawReform.html

Union Leaders Fight for a Place in the President's Workplace of the Future
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
Published: August 8, 1993


As the Clinton Administration seeks to define the high-performance workplace of the future, union leaders are fighting for a place in that definition. More specifically, they say any Clinton campaign to upgrade the workplace will not succeed without unions.

But the Administration, backed strongly by unions in last fall's election, is not ready to go that far. "The jury is still out on whether the traditional union is necessary for the new workplace," Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich said in an interview.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/08/us/union-leaders-fight-for-a-place-in-the-president-s-workplace-of-the-future.html?pagewanted=1