Remember the words: lame duck session.
If Republicans win the House or Senate, big labor will call in their final chit and demand passage of the Card Check Forced Unionism bill and Boss Trumka isn’t denying it:
On the C-SPAN “Newsmakers” show he was asked whether the Employee Free Choice Act will be considered in Congress this year.Trumka said: “I think you’ll see the Employee Free Choice Act come up again. I think you’ll see it probably before the end of the year. Before the elections or in a lameduck session? Trumka: “Either one.”
Former UA union member Karl Ludwig: The UA “intentionally excludes potential pipefitters from the labor market to limit supply and drive up prices. Worse yet, the exclusion means less pipefitting work gets done.”
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