‘Card check’ bill on the way (Bill Introduced Today - Warren Buffet Opposes EFCA)

DC Examiner ^ | 031009 | Susan Ferrechio

[Fred]

House and Senate Democrats will introduce a bill to ease rules on labor union elections as soon as Tuesday, thrusting Congress into one of the biggest battles ever between business and labor and putting moderates in the hot seat as no other piece of legislation has this year.

On Monday, investment guru Warren Buffett announced on CNBC that he is opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow unions to bypass the secret ballot and require only signatures on a petition to organize a company’s work force. “I think the secret ballot is pretty important in this country,” Buffett said.

Democrats, including President Barack Obama, had pledged last year to pass the bill quickly for the labor unions that helped them win big last November.

But three months into the new administration and the new Congress, Democratic lawmakers are watching the issue “fester,” as one Senate aide put it, while they struggle to find enough support to pass it.

Business groups and other opponents, who call the vote-by-petition practice “card check,” have grown more vocal in their opposition, while the unions have intensified their pressure on Congress to get the bill to Obama's desk.

On Tuesday, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., are expected to introduce the legislation in the Senate and House, respectively. And according to leadership aides, it will be up to the Senate to pass the bill before the House considers it.

Warren Buffet on Card Check - Youtube

[Myrddin]

Being a union thug should become as comfortable as being the #1 al Qaeda in Iraq or the top dog at Hamas.

[maggief]

Card Check under fire in the Senate

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/card_check_under_fire_in_the_s.html

Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is another key member who is wavering. Though he voted with Democrats in 2007, he now says, “I’m still thinking about it.” He added, “I’m being lobbied on it very, very heavily.”