by Girish Anand | Apr 12, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
Introduced in the House of Representatives on March 5, the National Labor Relations Modernization Act (H.R. 1355) is like EFCA’s little sister. The main difference is that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) allows for instant unionization when a majority of...
by Girish Anand | Apr 4, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
You can’t kill it, and it comes back to haunt you every time you think it’s safe to venture back into society again. It’s the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), and even though it lacks the votes to survive a Senate filibuster, it’s still...
by Girish Anand | Mar 25, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who in 2007 voted to invoke cloture on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), came out yesterday and said his vote will be “no” this time around. That leaves the Democrats–Labor’s mouthpiece and sometime...
by Girish Anand | Mar 21, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
Starbuck’s, Whole Foods and Costco have floated a proposal to level the playing field, as they term it, in union organizing. The group rejects two prongs of the proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)–the card-check and binding arbitration...
by Girish Anand | Mar 14, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
It’s funny–and illustrative–that Democrats in the U.S. have always ached for the liberalism of our northern neighbor, which is one reason why I’ve been warning on these pages that health care reform, Demo-style, is nothing but a Trojan Horse...
