"EFCA victory by August."
That's the prediction by Andy Stern, SEIU President, in USA Today.
"It's not about unions. It's about how America is going to rebuild the middle class, " Stern said.
Stern thinks there are enough votes in the House and Senate to approve the bill and he expects victory by August. Again he is confident that the bill would get the 60 Senate votes needed to block a filibuster.
Me, me, it's all about me. I'm on fire, put me out...(old Gary Shandling joke). The "me" is Unions and you can see the panic starting to set in. Obama is not moving fast enough to satisfy the Union's return on their political investment.
To add fuel to their panic fire, Senator DeMint (R- South Carolina with a cool name) introduced the Secret Ballot Protect Act of 2009 (SBPA). As the Senator explains in the video above, the SBPA bill would amend the National Labor Relations Act to guarantee the right of American workers to have a secret ballot election on whether to unionize. What this means right away is you that you can get a quick "filibuster" head count because this bill, against the EFCA, has 16 cosponsors and that's a good start in the right direction.
"It's not about unions. It's about how America is going to rebuild the middle class, " Stern said.
Stern thinks there are enough votes in the House and Senate to approve the bill and he expects victory by August. Again he is confident that the bill would get the 60 Senate votes needed to block a filibuster.
Me, me, it's all about me. I'm on fire, put me out...(old Gary Shandling joke). The "me" is Unions and you can see the panic starting to set in. Obama is not moving fast enough to satisfy the Union's return on their political investment.
To add fuel to their panic fire, Senator DeMint (R- South Carolina with a cool name) introduced the Secret Ballot Protect Act of 2009 (SBPA). As the Senator explains in the video above, the SBPA bill would amend the National Labor Relations Act to guarantee the right of American workers to have a secret ballot election on whether to unionize. What this means right away is you that you can get a quick "filibuster" head count because this bill, against the EFCA, has 16 cosponsors and that's a good start in the right direction.
A similar bill H.R. 1176 was introduced in the House by Rep. John Kline with 103 co-sponsors. In a Democratic House it will be interesting to see who holds the line in the end and remains on this list...
It is going to get interesting as things heat up in the EFCA vs SBPA battle, especially as the remaining Senators start to realize that their constituents overwhelmingly reject the Employee Free Choice Act. This according to a recent survey (January, 2009) by McLaughlin & Associates, 74% of voters oppose the EFCA and surprisingly even in union households only 20% support it.
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