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Today in The Nation: Getting to Work
The Nation: Top Stories —
... . Labor and Trade: Reject Colombia, Korea and Panama trade agreements as currently written and ensure future agreements promote the public interest. Work towards passage of Employee Free Choice Act . Science: Allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Global Warming: Reverse the Bush EPA decision and allow California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. Call for a new climate treaty and ask Al Gore to lead that effort. Guantánamo: ...
New Polls Show Majority of Voters Support Employee Free Choice
Firedoglake —
... For most of the election season, voters in Senate battleground states were subjected to tens of millions of dollars in CEO-funded TV ads attacking attacking Democrats for supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. Not only did the ads fail to move voters, a majority of those who voted in key states said ...
Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Center-Left Agenda for the First 100 Days
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Labor and Trade: Reject Colombia, Korea and Panama trade agreements as currently written and ensure future agreements promote the public interest. Work towards passage of Employee Free Choice Act. ...
Why Employees Need Free Choice to Join Unions: Let’s Cut to the Chase
Firedoglake —
Secret Ballots
Saturday's New York Times had a lengthy piece by Steven Greenhouse about the growing chorus for the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would restore free choice for people who want to join a union.
Towards the end of the article is a simple sentence ...
When Conservatives are down, all they have to say is "Card Check"
Crooks and Liars —
As the country begins to turn away from Conservatism and Bush and depression runs deep in their veins, there does seem to be a phrase that lifts up their spirits. Everybody stand up and say "Card Check."
It's also known as the Employee Free Choice Act. And its progress in Congress has every corporate Fat Cat in America leaping into frenzied action. One of them, Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus, is saying that any corporate type who isn't on board in their fight against Card Check should be shot.
It's an obvious attack on unions and we need to be aware of this. Orrin Hatch loves to go on MSNBC, CNN or ...
Will a President Obama Fight for the Employee Free Choice Act?
Firedoglake —
I've been in communication with the Obama transition team since last week, unsuccessfully seeking an answer to the question, "Will an Obama administration make passage of the Employee Free Choice Act a top priority, and will it use all resources at its disposal to persuade lawmakers to pass it?" Representatives of the Obama transition team have so far declined to clarify or affirm the incoming administration's commitment to the legislation.
Questions about the new administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act arose after Rahm Emanuel, who has been selected to ...
Pachacutec: Will a President Obama Fight for the Employee Free Choice Act?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
I've been in communication with the Obama transition team since last week, unsuccessfully seeking an answer to the question, "Will an Obama administration make passage of the Employee Free Choice Act a top priority, and will it use all resources at its disposal to persuade lawmakers to pass it?" Representatives of the Obama transition team have so far declined to clarify or affirm the incoming administration's commitment to the legislation. Questions about the new administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act arose after Rahm Emanuel, who has been selected to become ...
New GOP Memo entitled Action Alert about the Auto Bail Out makes clear that it's all about "Union Busting"
Crooks and Liars —
... If anything this memo should be used as a reminder that the Employee Free Choice Act should be one of Obama's "high priorities" just after he takes office. Check out ...
Pro-Business Group Sinks Over A Million Dollars Into Ad Linking Blago To Senate Dems And "Union Bosses"
TPM Election Central —
Kicking off what promises to be a huge fight over labor's top legislative priority, a pro-business group is sinking over a million dollars into a TV ad campaign tying Rod Blagojevich to "union bosses" and calling on Democratic Senators in four states to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.
The ad -- which was sent over by a source and hasn't been released to the press -- seeks to tar the Employee Free Choice Act as vaguely corrupt-sounding by tying it rather tangentially to the Blago mess. It's being aired by Americans for Free Choice, a business-funded group that is expected to spend big money to sink the Employee Free ...
Wal-Mart Gets a Makeover So It Can Fight Economic Recovery
Firedoglake —
... ahead of its fight against the Employee Free Choice Act. Wal-Mart appears to be afraid of that legislation because it would give employees the free choice to join unions and negotiate for better wages, benefits, and retirement security - something Wal-Mart employees certainly don't have now. ...
Contrast on the Hill: Today, Congress Hears from Workers and CEOs about the Employee Free Choice Act
Firedoglake —
Here's what you saw today if you're a Member of Congress.
This afternoon, more than 2,000 working people rallied outside the Senate in support of an important part of our economic recovery: the Employee Free Choice Act. At that rally more than ...
Steve Rosenthal: Union, Yes or No? -- It Depends on How You Ask
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
In my 30+ years working in politics, I have poured over more polling questionnaires than I care to remember. And if a pollster ever had the gall to put a question as ridiculous and misleading as the one in the new "poll" put out by the corporate-front-group otherwise known as the Center for Union Facts (CUF) - I would fire them on the spot.
The question posed was "do you want your job to be unionized?"
Issue #1: It asks if people want to have something done TO them, making them passive participants. The issue workers really face is would they vote to have a union in their workplace; therefore ...
Michael Whitney: Contrast on the Hill: Country Club CEOs vs. Working People
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Here's what you saw today if you're a Member of Congress.
This afternoon, more than 2,000 working people rallied outside the Senate in support of an important part of our economic recovery: the Employee Free Choice Act. At that rally more than 1 million cards signed by people who support the Employee Free Choice Act were delivered to Members of Congress. It was a true show of the broad public support for this bill.
Meanwhile, in the halls of Congress, CEOs are having their "Executive Lobby Day" so they can spread ...
Forcing Burger King to Backtrack on Employee Free Choice
Open Left - Front Page —
All week long, Brave New Films, SEIU and many progressive bloggers have been holding Burger King's feet to the deep fryer. Together we exposed Burger King's horrendous working conditions; launched a contest asking people to Have It Their Way with Goldman Sachs (Burger King's top shareholder) for squandering $6.5 billion of the bailout on bonuses while average BK workers earn less than the federal poverty line; and staged peaceful demonstrations at Burger Kings across the country protesting the fast-food chain's low wages, lack of healthcare, and lobbying against unionization ...
Indications are that Americans are now paying a steep price for our shocking national disdain for labor unions
DownWithTyranny! —
Have you seen this Brave New Films video (brought to us here by WarOnGreed.org)? A sustained campaign built around it has won some still-too-limited concessions from Burger King -- see below. "When I mentioned the word 'union,' I was ...
Michael Whitney: Burger King Backs off Opposition to Employee Free Choice Act
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
This week, under pressure from Service Employees International Union (SEIU) activists and allies like Brave New Films, Jobs with Justice, and the Coalition for Social Justice, Burger King scrambled to respond to allegations that it lobbied against the Employee Free Choice Act, while paying its workers poverty wages. In a statement issued Friday, Burger King apparently backed off its opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act:
"Burger King Corp. (BKC) believes unions serve a purpose in some workplaces and a number of its guests, vendors and ...
Employee Free Choice: Fergawdssakes, Stop the Scare Tactics!
Firedoglake —
... the business track record of several of the CEOs featured in the above video, who get the vapors every time EFCA comes up? I have to say that supporting EFCA just got even easier.
It's more than that, though: it makes economic sense and it's good for working families.
But why let that get in the way of a perpetual wingnutty lie?
SEIU, who produced this video, has more.
PS -- No kidding: put down liquids before viewing. You have ...
Bank of America's Ken Lewis has to go -- and since we all partly own his bank now, help get him fired
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... , Bank of America was caught hosting a conference call to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act - legislation that would help all working people, including Bank of America employees. ...
