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Wonk Room: Chamber Of Commerce: Free Choice Act Is A ‘Firestorm Bordering On Armageddon’
Firedoglake: Will a President Obama Fight for the Employee Free Choice Act?
Matthew Yglesias: Chamber Stimulus
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com: Pachacutec: Will a President Obama Fight for the Employee Free Choice Act?
Chamber Of Commerce: Free Choice Act Is A ‘Firestorm Bordering On Armageddon’
Wonk Room —
... is becoming increasingly vitriolic.
The Wonk Room previously highlighted Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus’ assertion that retailers who are not fighting the Free Choice Act “should be shot.” Now, the United States Chamber of Commerce has upped the ante, saying that the “coming fight in Congress over the issue” is a “firestorm bordering on Armageddon.”
In its efforts to stifle the act, the Chamber launched a $10 million campaign against it last week:
The chamber deployed a network of ...
Will a President Obama Fight for the Employee Free Choice Act?
Firedoglake —
... Questions about the new administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act arose after Rahm Emanuel, who has been selected to become Barack Obama's Chief of Staff, recently declined to affirm an Obama administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act when speaking to a group of prominent business leaders. Emanuel's unwillingness to make a statement about the Employee Free Choice Act stood out because Barack Obama made ...
Chamber Stimulus
Matthew Yglesias —
... to do its part to keep recession at bay, looking to stimulate the economy with $10 billion in spending to ensure that American labor law remains a bad joke in which companies can break all kinds of laws and stifle union organizing with impunity: ...
Pachacutec: Will a President Obama Fight for the Employee Free Choice Act?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Questions about the new administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act arose after Rahm Emanuel, who has been selected to become Barack Obama's Chief of Staff, recently declined to affirm an Obama administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act when speaking to a group of prominent business leaders. Emanuel's unwillingness to make a statement about the Employee Free Choice Act stood out because Barack Obama made ...
Card Check: Textbook Case in Media Bias
PoliGazette —
... The Las Vegas Sun (they have newspapers in Vegas???) reports that the incoming Obama administration may be backing quietly away from its promise to sign “card check” legislation that would revoke workers’ rights to have a secret ballot before the formation of a union and allow the union to be formed based solely on the signing of cards by a majority of workers. ...
Obama Team Restates Strong Support For Union Bill
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Some were concerned by Emanuel's remarks, taking them as a signal that Obama would push back aspects of the pro-labor agenda in order to tackle other pressing economic matters. Press reports enforced the theory that Emanuel had "declined to say whether the White House would support the legislation." ...
Obama Team Restates Strong Support For Union Bill
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Some were concerned by Emanuel's remarks, taking them as a signal that Obama would push back aspects of the pro-labor agenda in order to tackle other pressing economic matters. Press reports enforced the theory that Emanuel had "declined to say whether the White House would support the legislation." ...
Microblog 2008-12-04
Overlawyered —
... over 40 years, lots I didn’t know about its past [Brian Doherty and many others]
As rescuers neared, “immaculate” champagne service: sang-froid of staff and guests under Taj siege [Daily Mail] Security at Mumbai’s Oberoi hotel couldn’t get gun permits from gov’t [WSJ] Tunku Varadarajan: What India must do now [Forbes]
Good! Obama camp hedging support for EFCA (card-check, imposed union contract) bill [Las Vegas Sun h/t @Eric_B_Meyer]
Lap dancing “is not sexually stimulating”, ...
