Employee Free Choice Act Compromise?

[Earth Bound Misfit]

The following comment, by Peter Kirsanow, was posted on NRO--Conservative site. Kirsanow was (still is?) on the Board of the NLRB.


There's increasing speculation that the Employee Free Choice Act won't be taken up within the first 100 days of the Obama administration and that when it does come up for vote, the card check provision will be either diluted or stripped from the bill entirely.

Ever since Nov. 4 employers have been apoplectic that a Democratic president plus huge Democratic majorities in Congress meant the EFCA juggernaut couldn't be stopped. Consequently, removal or dilution of the card check provision would be met with relief by employer groups.

That relief would be misplaced. For some time, experts close to the EFCA debate have maintained that the strategy of EFCA proponents was to compromise on either the bill's card check provision or the mandatory arbitration provision in order to enhance the probability that at least one of those provisions would pass. Some contended that mandatory arbitration was always the principal goal of EFCA supporters.

Eliminating or modifying card check might quell concerns about "instant" unionization, but mandatory arbitration is no less troubling. EFCA opponents who concede mandatory arbitration in exchange for a more palatable card check provision are making a strategic error.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWI5MjQ1YmRkZDBhMmZlZTYzZGRmNzcyZmFiYWUyYmU=

[billyoc]

1. I will go fucking shithouse.

I spent all of my time and money this past year getting these Democrats elected, and if they fuck me on this, they'll wish they had gone into food service.

EFCA is the ONLY thing I want from this administration, and I will turn hating them into a fundamentalist religion if I don't get it.

[Selatius]

2. This would be a disasterous set-back for labor in America.

If EFCA gets diluted or becomes toothless entirely, I predict a lot of union voters will stay home the next time around.

[billyoc]

3. I'll be out there making your prediction come true.

Not one dime, not one volunteer, not one vote.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

4. I've been reading a lot of Anti-EFCA rhetoric...

The one word most commonly used to describe their opposition is armageddon. To think the EFCA will be passed as written would be underestimating the resistance it will face from our enemies. I just hope the Dems will not cave completely, or I will be right beside you at the Church of F#@K THE LYING SCUM WHO BETRAYED LABOR.

[David Ricardo]

5. Ugh how do they not get it

everyone here realizes alot of the economic problems would be solved with the EFCA. Strong unions means better wages means AMERICANS can BUY things. ugh. EFCA NOW!!