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Turning Up the Pressure on the U.S Chamber of Commerce

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, General Electric, Ed Markey, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, President Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, PNM Resources, Accce, San Jose Chamber of Commerce, Alcoa, Climate Change, Americans With Disabilities Act, New Yorker, Apple, Nike, Kevin Grandia, Adam Green, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, PG&E, Blue America, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Politics, Service Employees International Union, Exelon, CREDO Mobile, Global Warming, Family and Medical Leave Act, Political News, Steven Chu, Efca, Natural Resources Defense Council, Duke Energy, Health Care, Chamber of Commerce, Senator Graham, Frank Knapp, Levi Strauss, Move On, Seiu, Entergy, Psef, Green News
Josh Nelson

Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.

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Rubber Chickens in Reading...

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Joe the Nerd, Politics, Pennsylvania Democratic Party, 2010 Elections, Nerd, Efca, Sestak, Philadelphia, Democratic Party, 2010 Senate Races, Joe Sestak, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

As I start to exhale, I am realizing, personally, that Specter is not right for Pennsylvania at this time.

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America Needs Warriors for Justice

Stewart Acuff | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stewart Acuff, Efca, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

It is clear that if we are to win the change we voted for last fall, and that many of us have worked for for years, we are gonna have to fight hard, and fight outside the normal Washington lobbying box.

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New Reason for Devotion to Employee Free Choice Act

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Steel Workers Union, Union Card Checks, Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check, Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice, Efca, United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

For Ted Kennedy, for Crystal Lee Sutton, for us all, America ought to have the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Friday Talking Points [91] -- Win One For Teddy

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Ted, May You Be in Heaven, Cloture, Win One for Teddy, Employee Free Choice Act, Public Universities, Irish Wake, Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, Filibuster, Politicizing, Reform, Politicize, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Paul Wellstone, Funeral, Video, Edward Kennedy, Mayor Quimby, Simpsons, Senator, Chow-Dah, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Public Education, Public University, Health Care, Reid, Diamond Joe Quimby, Irish, Card Check, Massachusetts, Democrat, Medicaid, Majority Leader, The Simpsons, Democrats, Efca, Springfield, The Simpsons Movie, USA Today, Contest, Edward M Kennedy, Mddotw, Eulogy, Chris Weigant, Health, Uncle Ted, Senator Kennedy, Harry Reid, Medicare, Irish Toast, Socialism, Higher Education, Wellstone, Teddy, Up or Down Vote, Quimby, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Calling for some sort of decorous avoidance of politics during politicians' funerals is downright ridiculous. It'd be like eulogizing Charles Lindbergh and not mentioning airplanes.

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Reid: Employee Free Choice Act Off The Table For Now

Las Vegas Review Journal | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dems Efca, Harry Reid, Reid Employee Free Choice Act, Employee Free Choice Act, Reid Efca, Efca, Harry Reid Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News

Reid also said the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make union-organizing easier through measures such as card-check votes and mandatory binding ...

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Teabaggers Are To Congresspeople What Union-Busters Are To Workers

Mike Elk | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Efca, Birthers, Town Hall Debate, Teabagging, Unions, Betty-Castor, Politics News
Mike Elk

The right wing is creating a climate of fear in which no logical argument can be made.

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Specter: My Record On EFCA Is Consistent

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Specter, Gop, Labor, Arlen Specter, Labor Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, 2010 Elections, Efca, Sestak, Specter Employee Free Choice Act, Arlen Specter Democrat, Politics News

In a letter to the editor published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) said his views on the Employee Free Choice A...

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Workers' Rights Are Civil Rights

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Efca, Pension, Minimum Wage, Rich Trumka, Wal-Mart, Wall Street, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Employee Free Choice Act, Little Rock, Afl-Cio, Central High School, Rev. Wendell Griffin, Wall Street Bonus, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar's lot really, but still corporations across America decried it.

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The Church and the Employee Free Choice Act

Stewart Acuff | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stewart Acuff, Efca, Labor, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Pope Benedict XVI, The Pope, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

I'm neither a Roman Catholic scholar nor a Biblical scholar, but I can read, and the Pope's language is crisp and clear: restrain the greed of the markets; protect workers; pass the EFCA.

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Who Is at the Table?

Dave Johnson | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Efca, Benefits, Labor, Wages, Business News
Dave Johnson

Progressives believe in a "we're all in this together" philosophy while conservatives follow a "you are on your own" philosophy. The differences betwe...

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EFCA Opponent Runs Ad Suggesting Unions Gag Employees With Duct Tape

The Plum Line | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, Rick Berman, Employee Free Choice Act, Mark Pryor, Efca, Service Employees International Union, Unions, Labor Unions, Seiu, Politics News

A top union is demanding that an Arkansas TV station yank a new ad being run by the "Dr. Evil" of pro-business lobbyists that depicts workers as mobbe...

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CNBC Fail: Iran elections = Employee Free Choice Act?

Michael Whitney | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Jim Cramber, Fail, Employee Free Choice Act, Iran Election, Cnbc, Card Check, Efca, Iran, Iran Elections, Erin Burnett, Journalism, Business News
Michael Whitney

Yesterday, CNBC reporters made a ridiculous, irresponsible statement. They compared the aftermath of Iran's recent election to what would happen under the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Jason Linkins

CNBC's Erin Burnett Compares EFCA to Ahmadinejad

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Efca, Iran, Video, Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check, Jim Cramer, Erin Burnett, Iran Elections, Unions, Politics News

Burnett compared the lack of a "secret ballot" in Iran to the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow unions to form via signed cards. Yes, on CNBC, "card check" equals creeping Ahmadinejadism.

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Collective Bargaining For America

Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Stewart Acuff, Efca, Collective Bargaining, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

It should be abundantly clear and obvious by now that unions and collective bargaining are not economic culprits but are essential to long term, sustainable economic well being.

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Holocaust Museum Shooting Demostrates Need for Employee Free Choice

Dave Johnson | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Efca, Labor, Employee Free Choice Act, Security Guards, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Business News
Dave Johnson

Security guards at the Holocaust Museum had tried to get protective vests from the company that employs them. The company didn't want to bother with this "cost." Now a guard is dead.

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Sam Stein

Labor Takes New EFCA Tact: Targets Business On Arbitration

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Labor Community, Efca, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Ad, Business Arbitration, Arbitration, Politics News

Scroll down to see the ad In what is a tactical shift in the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor community is going after business, c...

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GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest. Workers Desperately Need EFCA.

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, GM Bankruptcy, Economy, United Auto Workers, Efca, Collateral Damage, Race, Labor Unions, Recession, Racial Politics, Minimum Wage, Unemployment, General Motors, General Motors Bankruptcy, People of Color, Detroit, Foreclosure, Racial Disparities, Auto Industry, Unions, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Seth Freed Wessler

In the economy we've inherited from the last three decades of deregulation and declining union density, people of color are increasingly relegated to low-wage, precarious work that pays too little to support a family.

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In Praise of Injustice (Accentuate the Negative)

Eli Dansky | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes, Activism, Efca, Obama, Matthew Shepard, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, TV Advertising, Torture, Advocacy, Politics News
Eli Dansky

Let's restore despair and self-righteousness, along with shame/fearmongering, to their rightful places in the activist's arsenal.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Betting Against the American Middle Class

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup Inc., “No Holds Barred”, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Secret Ballot Elections, Wal-Mart, Union Organizers, Interrogation, Threats, Cornell University, Employee Free Choice Act, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Surveillance, Stewart Acuff, Usw, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, American Middle Class, Home Depot, National Labor Relations Board, Harassment, National Labor Relations Act, Efca, Aig, Bank of America, Public Sector, Bailout Money, Nlrb, Glenn Spencer, Bernie Marcus, Randel K. Johnson, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Unionization is how the middle class re-emerges. America could do without a few filthy-rich boys lolling on yachts in the Mediterranean.

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Ryan Grim

Senate Dems Hold EFCA Strategy Session

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dems Efca, Harry Reid, Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check, Efca, Dems Card Check, Democrats Efca, Politics News

Senate Democratic leaders met Thursday afternoon in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office, two sources familiar with the meeting say, to discuss ...

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Karl Rove: Let's Debate Employee Free Choice

Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice Act, Stewart Acuff, Efca, Karl Rove, Karl Rove EFCA, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

Karl Rove, I challenge you to debate the Employee Free Choice Act. You can pick the time and place, but you cannot limit the audience or exclude the media.

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Spilling the Beans About Starbucks' Union-Busting Tactics

ZP Heller | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Howard Schultz, Efca, Workers, Brave New Films, Starbucks, Employee Free Choice, Robert Greenwald, Unions, Rights, Politics News
ZP Heller

Turns out the coffee giant has a nasty history of being anti-barista, anti-union, and thus anti-Employee Free Choice Act as well.

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What Do Starbucks and Wal-Mart Have in Common?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Starbucks, Rights, Howard Schultz, Employee Free Choice, Efca, Workers, Brave New Films, Unions, Robert Greenwald, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

There are over 127,000 baristas in our country alone, many of whom are in dire need of better wages, health benefits, and hours. Shouldn't they have the right to be treated fairly?

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The Stars Align for Employee Free Choice Act

Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 06.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Efca, Labor, Entertainment, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Entertainment News
Arlene Holt Baker

From the big screen to the Broadway stage, a stellar lineup of stars is joining the fight for working families.

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