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‘Card check’ bill on the way (Bill Introduced Today - Warren Buffet Opposes EFCA)
DC Examiner ^ | 031009 | Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 03/10/2009 7:46:43 AM PDT by 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

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhostimulus; cardcheck; first100days; hoffa; obamatruthfile; porkulus; seiu; socialism; specter; teamsters; toomey; uaw; unions
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1 posted on 03/10/2009 7:46:43 AM PDT by Fred
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To: Fred

Lets see if that f#@ker Spector signs on to this.


2 posted on 03/10/2009 7:48:55 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: Fred
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.

If this passes the next thing will be the same for presidential elections. You will have a thug with a night stick standing next to you when you publicly vote.

3 posted on 03/10/2009 7:51:21 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Nonstatist

I think he’s a faker too.


4 posted on 03/10/2009 7:51:32 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Nonstatist
Looks like Toomey is going to run against Specter in the primary, almost beat him last time

If the congressmen in question in the article vote for card check, the repubs will have a perfect opportunity to take back these seats.
5 posted on 03/10/2009 7:51:59 AM PDT by Fred (Proud Member of the Obama Enemies List)
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To: Fred

If the left can pass this bill, they can pass anything they want.


6 posted on 03/10/2009 7:52:25 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: Nonstatist

I have heard that Bayh is wavering on his support of the EFCA. But I haven’t seen any press releases to support that claim. Anybody got any news?


7 posted on 03/10/2009 7:53:51 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Fred
But three months into the new administration and the new Congress

It just seems like three months.

8 posted on 03/10/2009 7:55:40 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Fred

If I owned a medium sized company, say 50 workers, and this was pulled on me, one weekend there’d be a half dozen trucks backed up to the loading dock and next Monday there’d be big fat locks chained across the doors.


9 posted on 03/10/2009 7:55:53 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: Fred
Well, if there is one thing we can count on, anything that is really bad for this country will probably get passed.

Something that would actually help, forget it.

10 posted on 03/10/2009 7:56:13 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (FUBO, he says we should listen to our enemies, but not to Rush - and zer0 has already failed)
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To: Fred

This would seem unconstitutional.


11 posted on 03/10/2009 8:00:30 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberalism is Communism, and both are a mental disorder. Grow up.)
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To: olezip

“You will have a thug with a night stick standing next to you when you publicly vote. “

You mean a DEAD thug.


12 posted on 03/10/2009 8:01:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberalism is Communism, and both are a mental disorder. Grow up.)
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To: Nonstatist
I believe Spector will sign on to this bill---would not surprise me at all. Isn't this going to be his last term, he is not running for re-election is he. Just as well, Spector or a Democrate not much difference. Most will dance in tune with the Pied Piper and the Great Snake Oil salesman with his silver forked tongue. This Kbama guy is good at, "complicating the obvious and trivializing the momentous".Penny Patch
13 posted on 03/10/2009 8:02:36 AM PDT by Ron Russell (kbama,snake oil,)
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To: CodeToad

This bill will bring out the most evil factions within unions and unions don’t need more help in that area. If you’ve never called a Senator or Crongressman to urge them to vote for or against a bill, please do so on this abomination.


14 posted on 03/10/2009 8:04:14 AM PDT by irish guard
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To: Ron Russell
Isn't this going to be his last term, he is not running for re-election is he ?

He is. He's such a bloated , vain, strutting peacock that he actually thinks he can triangulate himself into another term, even though he is 79 and has Hodgkins disease.

Earlier, he voted for this travesty, but if this crap gets passed on his vote, he will go down in flames in the primary.

Still, I dont know what he will do, hes such an asshat.

15 posted on 03/10/2009 8:12:13 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: olezip

Obama won all those caucus states in the Dem primaries with the same tactics the unions want to use to intimidate. Soon we’ll be “voting” without a secret ballot in elections so you can be punished if you vote wrong.


16 posted on 03/10/2009 8:16:33 AM PDT by penowa
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To: Nonstatist

Spectre will support this — and be scornful of those “noncentrists” who question his judgement

the guy is altered


17 posted on 03/10/2009 8:17:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: Fred

Wasn’t Buffet pro Obama?


18 posted on 03/10/2009 8:23:21 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: Pessimist

Big time, and still is.


19 posted on 03/10/2009 8:33:17 AM PDT by Fred (Proud Member of the Obama Enemies List)
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To: Pessimist

This bill is yet another job killer. Look what happened to the auto companies after unions took them over. America can expect more of the same if this bill passes. America, you have been warned!


20 posted on 03/10/2009 8:33:39 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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