Senate Dems Hold EFCA Strategy Session
Senate Democratic leaders met Thursday afternoon in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office, two sources familiar with the meeting say, to discuss ...
Senate Democratic leaders met Thursday afternoon in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office, two sources familiar with the meeting say, to discuss ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Blanche Lincoln on Monday announced that she would vote against the Employee Free Choice Act. But later she elaborated, leaving the door open ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In what is, perhaps, the most devastating blow yet to the fate of the Employee Free Choice Act, Sen. Blanche Lincoln said on Monday that she will oppo...
The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011
This is some rough stuff. The SEIU has just launched a hard-hitting Web video that ties Blue Dog Democrat Dan Boren to the horrific death of a worker ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
The labor movement's mostly unspoken tactic to pass the Employee Free Choice Act -- its legislation of generational importance -- seeped out into publ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The Employee Free Choice Act was introduced in Congress on Tuesday, marking the official launch of what promises to be a fierce legislative battle. L...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011
America's top CEOs have declared their top legislative priority for 2009 -- to scuttle the bipartisan legislation that would restore workers' freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Pushing back against reports of concern over the Employee Free Choice Act's passage, union officials insisted on Monday and Tuesday that they have eno...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011
The campaign on EFCA will be fierce. Gaining 60 votes won't be easy. The business community will go all out, claiming that strong unions will ruin America, trample workers' freedoms, drive jobs abroad. But we've tried an economy with weak unions -- and that didn't work out so well. Obama is right to tee this up early even as he struggles to get the economy moving, to get the financial system reorganized, to move on health care and new energy. This is a fight that citizens across the country should join. It will be a critical building block of the new economy that we must construct from the ashes of the old.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011