02.08.10
The End of Labor Law Reform for Another Generation?
CounterPunch,Weekend Edition
January 29 – 31, 2010
The Night They Drove Old EFCA Down
By STEVE EARLY
Scott Brown’s defeat of Martha Coakley in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s
Senate seat has been greeted as a “game changer” for Barack Obama and his
political backers. This GOP victory has deprived Democrats of their
“filibuster-proof” super-majority in the Senate, making Obama’s health care
plan—at least, in its current form–the most high-profile casualty of
Coakley’s loss.
But, for trade unionists already disappointed with Obama, the collateral
damage is far worse. Now, the White House staffers and Congressional leaders
who’ve been re-assuring them that labor law reform was next on Obama’s
agenda don’t even have 60 votes to prevent Republican filibustering of the
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)–in any form.
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