The conventional wisdom lately is that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA or "Card Check" to others) will not pass in its current form. (You can find my prior coverage of the EFCA here.)
Over the last few days, however, various "compromises" have been floated. (H/T Shopfloor.) Of course, the very word "compromise"
With the budget issues looming large over this session of the General Assembly, it’s tough to get a handle on what labor & employment law bills are still a possibility for this session. One way to do that is to check to see what bills have been reported out of the Labor & Public Employees committee because if the
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After months of nonstop speculation, the Employee Free Choice Act bill, which was introduced last year in Congress, is expected to be introduced later today by Rep. George Miller of California.
But its passage this year is far from certain. As the EFCA Report blog and others have stated, several senators, including
There’s been some speculation this week that with the Republicans picking up an important 41st seat in the Senate in 2009 (thus having enough votes to filibuster theorhetically), the prospects for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act have gone down, at least in the short term. I’d add to that notion that proponents will