Harkin: Votes Aren’t There On EFCA

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) has been a key player and proponent of the Employee Free Choice Act in the Senate. He currently chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee where he hoped to steer the legislation to passage. That obviously has not to come to fruition, and he recently admitted the votes were not there to pass the bill. While many have known this to be true for some time, few Democratic or labor leaders have admitted such. The key question is: what do supporters do to work around the lack of vote for passage of EFCA?