EFCA Round-Up: Monday, May 18, 2009
ShopFloor.org notes the irony in the support of EFCA by the Applied Research Center, a "racial justice think tank":
The Employee Free Choice Act is only part of this radical leveling agenda, true. Still, destruction of the secret ballot was a hallmark of the Jim Crow era that deprived African-Americans of their rights. In the pursuit of “racial justice,” this group wants to recreate those days of discrimination.
How sad.
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room reported on Monday in "Pelosi: Dems in Congress 'Committed' to EFCA”:
Democrats in Congress are "committed" to passing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday.
Pelosi told the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department conference in Washington that the strength of the middle class is directly tied to the strength of organized labor.
"Our work in Congress is based on two truths: America's economy is only as strong as America's middle class; America's middle class is only as strong as America's unions," Pelosi told the labor group today, according to prepared notes.
"That is why Congress is committed to passing the Employee Free Choice Act, and why President Obama is ready to sign it into law," the Speaker said.
