Traitor Sen. Blanche Lincoln: I May Vote Against Employee Free Choice Act

[Joanne98]

Sen. Blanche Lincoln: I May Vote Against Employee Free Choice Act
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is set to be one of the early battles between progressives and conservatives in the 111th Congress. The bill would give workers the option to form a union through a “card-check” system, in which a union would be recognized if a majority of workers signed a petition testifying <…>

http://www.thehollywoodliberal.com/2008/12/18/sen-blanche-lincoln-i-may-vote-against-employee-free-choice-act/

[bread_and_roses]

1. And so it begins. How many Dems will bail now that it could actually be signed?

The article is not even accurate. Majority sign-up is not a petition. Please go to http://www.aflcio.org/ and click on "Employee Free Choice Act" near top right of page to sign the petition of support. And please contact your Senators and House Reps to express support. "Employee Free Choice" is exactly what it says it is - puts the choice in the hands of workers.

[baldguy]

2. She's from Arkansas.

Remember, Gov Clinton supported the so-called "right-to-work" amendment there.

[kstewart33]

3. Very good point.

She's a conservative Dem in a very conservative state.

Disappointing, but understandable.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Arkansas is being overrun by TV ads from 'Americans for Job Security' telling people to

contact her and tell her to vote against 'the union boss bailout'. They're running the same ad in Nebraska and N. Dakota. See the ad (which is kind of confusing) here.

http://www.savejobs.org/mediacenter.php?qseg=13

Source watch has this to say about the group:

Americans for Job Security AJS) spun off in the late 1990s from a group called The Coalition: Americans Working for Real Change, a group that had been formed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to counteract the extensive soft money spending by the AFL-CIO starting in the 1996 elections.<1>

Later in a FEC Complaint Public Citizen wrote that(AJS) is a "sham front group that would be better called Corporations Influencing Elections ... masquerading as a non-profit to conceal its funders and the scope of its electioneering activities,"<1> the Center for Responsive Politics wrote in April 2007.<2> Incorporated October 1997 in Virginia, AJS was described by the Center as "pro-Republican", "pro-business", and "established to directly counter labor's influence".<3><4>

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Job_Security