Unions sure organizing bill will pass

[Omaha Steve]

Source: THE WASHINGTON TIMES

David M. Dickson

The government-affairs director of the AFL-CIO said he is certain that organized labor's top priority -- a law that would make it much easier for unions to organize businesses both large and small -- will pass Congress and be signed by President Barack Obama.

"I have no doubt it will pass and will be signed," William Samuel told reporters and editors of The Washington Times. He was referring to the Employee Free Choice Act, which would give workers the right to join a union as soon as a majority of them signed cards requesting union representation.

In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday, Mr. Samuel also said that the more than $300 million spent by labor unions to educate workers was crucial to the Democrats' success in key battleground states, such as Ohio and Michigan.

The AFL-CIO, which is a federation of 56 labor unions, will keep its electoral organization in place in many of the 21 states in which it operated in 2008 and use its 250,000 volunteers to serve as a grass-roots lobbying network to pressure Congress, Mr. Samuel said.


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[midnight]

1. This should help many of the nursing managers who's

jobs are not able to unionise right now.

[Fridays Child]

2. I hope so!

This would be a great first step toward repairing the damage that Republicans have inflicted on the Labor Movement. Ever since Reagan fired the air traffic controllers, those fuckers have waged open war against collective bargaining.

[bluestateguy]

3. Make no mistake about it. This will be a grueling fight to get it passed.

The last time it passed the House there was not much of a counter-campaign by business. That will not be the case this time, and DLC Democrats who may have voted for it last time might get weak in the knees. I am not confident that Arlen Specter will vote for it again either.

[iamthebandfanman]

4. good stuff :) n/t

[ryanmuegge]

5. LOL. Now that all the jobs are gone, sure you can unionize.

How nice of you all. I guess it's better than nothing. I'm sure we'll get thrown a few more bones over the next four years.

[autorank]

6. Hope so. k*r

[bluecollarcharlie]

7. Yeah, wonderful, whatever.

But the way all these so-called "progressives" around here have been throwing good hard-working blue collar people under the wheels of the on-coming depression 2.0 bus just to punish a group of companies for past sins i find it really hard to celebrate.
I really do.