A Republican senator, speaking to reporters this morning, offered up EFCA, the "Employee Free Choice Act" -- card check -- as a prime example of where Republicans would unite to fight tooth and nail against the Democrats and the Obama White House.
"We will do everything we possibly can to get every Republican on board," the senator said."We're even working on Arlen," the senator said, referring to Pennsylvania's Sen. Specter, a reliable ally of labor unions. A few Democrats, the senator said, will be targeted.
Already, labor and business groups have spent millions on television commercials and major trade associations plan to spend billions more opposing it.
Card check would allow workers to "show cards" at a union-sponsored event; if more than 50% of them did, then the union would be recognized as the bargaining agent for the workers. Alternatively, employees could ask for a secret ballot election, but employers would have to recognize its results. Labor unions have been salivating for card check elections, as their ranks would significantly expand because of it; Obama has promised to sign it.
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