The Vice President is right. Congressional obstructionists need to realize that elections have consequences-the same things they have saying to us for the past eight years! Quit holding up EFCA! You lost and now it's time to get out of the way. Workers deserve, yes DESERVE, better treatment at the hands of their bosses and EFCA will level the playing field to a more even keel. Unions are what made America an economic engine for average people and we can get back there with a more robust union membership.
updated 1:14 p.m. CT, Tues., May 12, 2009
WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden, making a renewed pitch for a major change in labor law, told union leaders Tuesday that the best way to rebuild the middle class is to help labor unions grow.
Biden said it's time to "level the playing field" for unions by passing a bill that would make it easier for workers to organize.
"You've got to climb up a hill with so many roadblocks on the way to organize that it's just out of whack," Biden told a conference of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which has about 1.6 million members.
"If a union is what you want, then a union is what you should get," Biden said.
The Employee Free Choice Act — also known as "card check" — is organized labor's top priority this year, but business groups are adamantly opposed. It would allow a majority of workplace employees to sign cards to join a union instead of holding secret ballot elections.
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