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Anti-EFCA Group To Target Webb, Warner Over August Recess
Congressfolk won't just be getting an earful about health care over the August recess. The National Right To Work Committee will be pressuring Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) in the coming weeks to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act
"[W]orkers' rights will be trampled on by the U.S. Senate's action," said the group's president Mark Mix, who, in a statement, calls EFCA the "Card Check Forced Unionization Bill". Cute. But if Mix had been reading TPMDC he'd know that, earlier this month Senate negotiators deep-sixed card check from EFCA in an effort to woo people just like Webb and Warner.
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Why would Warewr or Webb be against this? The ad makes no sense, or am I missing something here.
July 27, 2009 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Virginia is a right-to-work state (i.e. employer's unrestricted right to give someone else your job), and not solidly Democratic (yet.) Webb has walked picket lines, even before he was running for office, and I would consider him reasonably reliable on this. Warner, despite getting plenty of union support and being popular enough to weather almost anything, is a former businessman who likes to be "centrist" and bipartisan, and sadly, is probably not at all reliable.
July 28, 2009 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Brian -- I have no doubt Mix does know that, but since card check was never the principal sticking point, just the best one for PR purposes, I'm not surprised they'd stick with it even if it is entirely false. (The real show-stopper for business is binding arbitration, which is why giving in on majority signup was such a stupid move -- all it did was signal that our side was once again willing to bargain away essential elements without picking up enough votes for passage.)
July 28, 2009 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink