Current Employment

Word is spreading that the Employee Free Choice Act will be introduced in the House of Representatives on Monday, March 9.   Release the rhetorical hounds!

Yesterday, the L.A. County Federation of Labor posted a call for union members to “phone bank … from the streets” on Monday in support of the bill’s introduction.  EFCANow! corroborated, noting the early introduction was an effort to “preempt the continued lies” of corporate-sponsored lobbying groups. 

Those stories were picked up by Shopfloor.com  (“Preempt continued lies? How does that work exactly — time travel?“), and from there blew into the blogosphere like the partisan-tinged hot air sure that’s to follow it.

The bill will supposedly be introduced by Rep. George Miller (D-Cal 7th) and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass), and the pro-EFCA groups are claiming the two sponsors have assured the 60 Senate votes necessary to pass the bill in its present form.  I’ll wait for the results on that one.

This post is preliminary, and we’ll keep updating as we get info.  Oh, and if and when EFCA ignites, we’ll blow up, too.  Much, much coverage to come…

Hat Tip:  Like many things that interest us, we first noticed the report on Workplace Prof Blog. 

Plus, of all the brief commentary I just had to read, Jeffrey Hirsch gets the gold for “The economy may dull the fight somewhat, but I still expect this one to get bloody.  At the least, I may have fewer people ask me if labor law is still relevant.”