Last time we heard from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, he said that the Senate has no plans to bring the Employee Free Choice Act to the floor for a vote (at least not anytime soon). Reid said they had other things they are working on and did not have time to bring it up.
Yet last weekend, Reid delivered a video message to the AFL-CIO annual conference and touched on the pending legislation. This time he said: "I’m as committed today as ever to passing the Employee Free Choice Act and making it law."
The AFL-CIO blog took that to mean that Reid wants to "swiftly pass" EFCA. However, Reid chose his words carefully. He said he is committed to the bills passage- which we should never have doubted- but he did not go into any detail about when.
Was this just an olive branch to keep unions happy while the bill sits in waiting or have the Democrats decided to move forward with EFCA?
Monday, September 14, 2009
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