DSA fighting for the EFCA

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just a little promotion for DSA from me, but we, like many others, are on the move for the EFCA. There are many links within the article.

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has broad support. It also has powerful enemies. Backed by President Obama, a majority of the House and Senate Democrats, nearly every progressive organization or leader and those of us in Democratic Socialists of America, the bill is the target of every right-wing blogger and fund raising letter. Corporate interests, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Right to Work Foundation and other lobbying organizations, are waging a fierce fight, pressuring "moderate" Democrats and Republicans to prevent the bill's passage. Some Republican and Democratic sponsors have taken their name off the bill. Sen. Arlen Specter, who voted to break a Republican filibuster of the bill in the last Congress, and was at one time a bill sponsor, now says he will support a filibuster.

Sheldon Adelson, the casino billionaire, actually compared EFCA to "radical Islam" calling them both "fundamental threats to society." The opposition is so ferocious precisely because the legislation would help to re-level the playing field and provide unions with a fair opportunity to organize workers, reversing the decline in membership unions have experienced as a result of the systematic violations of labor law that have become commonplace.

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http://www.dsausa.org/NewsFromDSA/2009/02apr2009.htm

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